The Ontario Ministry of Transportation has announced that applications for permits to participate in Canada’s first HOT lanes pilot project can be submitted online at Ontario.ca/HOTLanes from August 1-21. During the project’s first term (September 15-December 31) the government will issue just 500 permits to volunteers willing to pay $180 (approximately US$137) to use HOT lanes (formerly HOV-only lanes) on Toronto’s Queen Elizabeth Way. The announcement adds, “Ontario issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking innovative technologies to support tolling, compliance and performance monitoring of HOT lanes. The RFI closes on Aug. 22, 2016. . . .”