Here’s when part of Highway 407 will become free in Ontario

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced this week that tolls will be removed from part of Highway 407 — making good on a promise from this year’s election campaign.

During the campaign, Ford said that a reelected Progressive Conservative government would remove tolls from the provincially owned portion of the highway.

On Tuesday, the premier announced that will soon be taking place.

“In a few short weeks, once the legislation is passed, there will not be one single publicly owned tolled highway left in Ontario,” Ford said at a press conference.

“And that’s thanks to our government’s ban on new road tolls in the province.”

The Ford government previously removed tolls from Highways 412 and 418 in Durham Region.

The province owns the eastern portion of Highway 407, from Brock Road in Pickering to Highway 35/115 in Clarington — that’s the section that will become free to use.

When it’s set to take effect

The government said that the tolls are set to be removed effective June 1.

Until then, drivers will still have to pay to use that section of the 407.

Once the tolls are gone though, the government said daily commuters are expected to save $7,200 annually.

Tolls will still remain on the 407 ETR — the privately owned portion of the highway, which makes up the majority of the roadway, stretching from Burlington to Brock Road.

The PC government sold it off in 1999 for $3.1 billion.

Ford has called that a “big mistake,” and has previously mused about buying it back.

— With files from The Canadian Press