Mississauga is putting a wrap on its 2023 construction season.

The city announced on December 19 that it had invested approximately $50 million in 2023 across 16 construction projects to repair, maintain and expand its transportation infrastructure, like roads, sidewalks, bridges and trails, and reduce flooding through stormwater management.

“While construction may cause temporary inconvenience, it plays an essential role in any city’s growth and development. Ongoing construction and maintenance of our infrastructure enables goods, services and people to move safely and efficiently around our city,” said Geoff Wright, Commissioner, Transportation and Works.

Projects within the city’s roads and stormwater capital programs include road resurfacing, sidewalk and multi-use trail construction, bridge repairs, creek erosion control work and dredging and maintenance of stormwater management ponds.

Highlights of the city’s 2023 road construction program include:

• Resurfaced seven major roads and 15 residential roads for a total of 14.5 kilometres.
• Built five kilometres of new sidewalks as part of the road resurfacing program.
• Rehabilitated three bridges:
  • Burnhamthorpe Road West bridge over Sawmill Valley Trail
  • Eglinton Avenue bridge over Little Etobicoke Creek
  • Glen Erin Drive bridge over Hunter’s Green Park Trail
• Built 2.3 kilometres of noise walls.
• Built 3.7 kilometres of multi-use trails and cycle tracks:
  • Argentia Road (Tenth Line West to east of Winston Churchill Boulevard)
  • Winston Churchill Boulevard (Crosscurrent Drive to Argentia Road and Unity Drive to Highway 403)
  • Kennedy Road (Britannia Road East/Coopers Avenue to Matheson Boulevard)
• Built 3.2 kilometres of cycle tracks and road rehabilitation along Matheson Boulevard East.
• Rehabilitated The Collegeway (Winston Churchill Boulevard to Mississauga Road), which includes 3.6 kilometres of new cycle tracks, pavement rehabilitation, new traffic signals and street lights and intersection improvements.
• Built the Rathburn Road and Ponytrail Drive Integrated Road Project, which includes three kilometres of new cycle tracks, pavement rehabilitation, intersection improvements and new pedestrian crossings, noise walls, traffic signals and streetlights.

The city also conducted work on several stormwater projects including erosion-control projects along Loyalist Creek (behind Thorn Lodge Drive) and along Cooksville Creek (from Canadian Pacific Railway to Kirwin Avenue). It also launched construction of a Cooksville flood storage facility in McKenzie Park (ongoing into 2024).