East London Link

in progress

• The project consists of creating 6.3 km of dedicated bus lanes by widening the roadway from downtown (King Street) to Fanshawe College and by widening Highbury Bridge (overpass), Highbury Avenue and Oxford Street, and installing intelligent traffic signals with transit signal priority sensors and video along the transit route to reduce intersection delays and shorten travel times, including. Work will also include installation of 14 transit platforms along the route, creating 3.7 km of cycling facilities and a transit hub at Fanshawe College. The project also includes the purchase of 9 new buses. Concurrent underground work on sewers and water mains will also be undertaken. • The on-street cycling network is not well developed, and at present there is limited connectivity in the existing network, with many lanes and paths limited to small segments of a road. This limits the ability of the current cycling network to provide access to current and future transit services. These shortcomings have previously been acknowledged by the City and the Transportation Master Plan. The proposed multi-use pathways and on-street cycling infrastructure will help to fill in these existing gaps and will act as first-mile and last-mile connections to the proposed rapid transit corridors.