Introduction

Cities are responsible for providing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all residents. This means taking care of existing sidewalks and roadways, planning effectively for transit services, ensuring our cycling infrastructure is robust and interconnected, while also reducing speeding and cut-through traffic. Afterall, safer streets lead to safer neighbourhoods.

Since 2018, I’ve tackled it head on and comprehensively with all of you. Ward 3 residents showed up in the largest number of any other ward to participate to identify specific roadway safety concerns. This resulted in a robust technical review and a multi-year Complete Streets Plan with nearly 130 short-term, mid-term and long-term design interventions. 

We have also embarked on massive road reconstruction that has enabled us to address critical infrastructure upgrades of water and sewer mains. My office then ensured Complete Streets designs with robust resident participation helped inform improvements like more trees, benches, bump-outs, cross walks and more.

Collectively, these interventions result in the largest investment into community safety Ward 3 has ever received.

And we didn’t stop there. Together, we went on to address major arterial roads, cycling connectivity, sidewalk repairs, resurfacing, and address high collision areas as well.

You will be able to click on a map and review the status and details of every roadworks project that has been initiated since 2018 this fall.