Dufferin County's public works committee will bring forward a motion at county council tonight to look for ways to seek provincial uploading of three heavily traveled county roads - Dufferin 109, 124 and 18.

Committee chairman Don MacIver last month asked for a feasibility report "of asking the Province" to take over the roads, but Public Works Director Trevor Lewis said in an interview he was unable to provide such a report for yesterday's committee meeting.

Mr. Lewis said not only would he require a direction from the council, but more municipalities than Dufferin would be affected.

County Road 109 serves as a connecting link between Highway 9 at Orangeville and Highway 9 at Harriston.

Prior to the downloading of some highways in 1998, Highway 9 ran from Kincardine to Newmarket. Now it is provincial roadway between Kincardine and Harriston, and between Orangeville and a point west of Newmarket. In Dufferin and Wellington, it's now County 109. In Bruce County it's Highway 9, and in York it's Region 31.

Formerly Highway 24, County 124 was downloaded in Dufferin, along with Highway 25. County 124 traverses not only Dufferin from Shelburne to around Maple Valley, but also Grey and Simcoe counties as far as Singhampton and Simcoe from there to Collingwood.

County 18, better known as Airport Road, differs from the others as it was initially a provincially built development road in Dufferin but has always been a municipal road, and wasn't part of the 1998 downloading by the Conservative government of Mike Harris.

But it is similar in principle, in that it crosses three upper-tier areas - Peel Region and Dufferin and Simcoe counties - and is a heavily traveled access route to Wasaga Beach and the Blue Mountain ski areas.

Airport Road in Dufferin is arguably among the most dangerous in Canada. Traffic is such that Mulmur on occasion hires paid-duty police officers to patrol it.