City Raises $ 8.9 Million in Underground Works Before Reconstruction of Provincial Highway

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City officials are celebrating the completion of $ 8.9 million in underground works that lay the foundation for major improvements to congested rural-type highways in the Provincial Highway / Divisional Highway / Sixth Concession area.

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“We are going to add sidewalks and the ability to ride a bike, and I hope that people who live in this area will have the opportunity to have those options, to get to the grocery store by bike or on foot,” Ward 9 Coun. Kieran McKenzie told a news conference Tuesday about the completion of Phase 2 of the four-phase, 10-year Provincial / Divisional Corridor Project, which he said will ultimately improve the lives of the thousands of people living in nearby subdivisions.

Currently, roads like Division and Provincial lack sidewalks, curbs and bike lanes, making it nearly impossible to bike or walk to the many nearby stores, movie theaters and grocery stores, McKenzie said.

“Those destinations are quite close … but right now, to be brutally honest, it is not safe for them to reach those destinations despite the actual proximity.”

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For example, if you live in the Lone Pine subdivision between Division and Provincial, you can’t safely walk to nearby Tim Hortons at Division and Walker Road, he said.

“These investments are substantial and, in my opinion, critically important, especially for the residents who live in this area.”

The briefing was held at Captain Wilson Park, the location of a recently completed pump station. Other components of Phase 2 are new trunk storm sewers in the Provincial and Sixth Concession, a new storm sewer that crosses the CN railroad tracks to the new pumping station, an oil and sand separator to maintain water quality, a underground installation of rainwater management in the park, and cleaning, requalification and lining of the old Drainage of the Sixth Concession.

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“Most of the work that happened in this phase was done underground, which means there is not much to see because we were literally laying the groundwork for future phases,” said Mayor Drew Dilkens. “We expect Phases 3 and 4 to develop between 2022 and 2025, continuing storm sewer and main sewer construction and road reconstruction work on other sections of Provincial Road.”

The cost of the entire project is set at $ 31 million. The first phase occurred between 2012 and 2013, when the Cabana Road / Provincial intersection was rebuilt at a cost of $ 11 million.

Phase 3 begins in 2022 and runs through 2023, involving the construction of storm sewers and water main along Provincial between the Sixth Provincial Concession / intersection and Lowe’s, followed by the reconstruction of that intersection and the reconstruction of the Sixth Concession from Cabana Road to the tracks. Phase 4 includes the reconstruction work of the Provincial Highway from 2024 to 2025: a four-lane highway with curbs, center turn lanes, sidewalks, streetlights, improved intersections, and bike lanes. Around the same time, the massive $ 46 million Cabana Road expansion and reconstruction project, which began in 2016, will end with its final phase, Division Road between the Sixth Concession and Walker Road, in 2025, said the project engineer from the City of Windsor. Jane He.

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The current phase of the Cabana Project, between Dougall Avenue and Highway 3, will be completed in 2023.

The mayor said the city council’s investment in the Provincial / Divisional Corridor Project is an acknowledgment of the significant increase in traffic volume in recent years, “largely due to the tremendous growth in the development of nearby commercial and residential centers. “. Completing Phase 2, he said, helps deliver on the promise to fix Windsor’s roads, improve safety, reduce congestion, reduce travel times and improve active transportation (walking, biking and transit).

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