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.

Ward 3 Safer Streets Interactive Map

You can interact with the map below to review the status and details of the Ward 3 Complete Streets Plan, safety measures, major roadworks, and related infrastructure investment that has been made or initiated since 2018. The information on this map will be updated annually. If there is a safer streets related matter you don’t see reflected here, please email my office at ward3@hamilton.ca and we will happily connect with you about it.