General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

Ottawa Street in Kitchener to undergo $10M worth of construction upgrades

Two-way traffic will be reduced to one lane in each direction on Ottawa Street this year, from Fischer-Hallman Road to Pinedale Drive, with more than $10 million worth of construction slated to get underway next month.
The work on Ottawa Street extending to Mowat Boulevard will be done over two years, with the street closed to traffic, from Pinedale Drive to Westmount Road, for replacement of the culvert at Borden Creek in 2025.
Upgrades include a new roundabout at the Westmount Road intersection (traffic will be maintained at the intersection during construction), as well as multi-use trails on both side of Ottawa Street.


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This is good news. Ottawa from Westmount to Fischer-Hallman is in terrible shape. I was wondering when they were going to rebuild it.

But it's a Regional project and the RMoW doesn't have an equivalent to Kitchener's Complete Streets guidelines, so we won't get good pedestrian safety features like raised crosswalks as got put in on Highland E.

Nah...it's fine...the region has finally seen the light and been willing to give pedestrians and cyclists *checks notes* some paint.