The 2024 budget did nothing to address traffic flow in Burlington.
In 2023 the city conducted an online survey. Question 8 asked:
“As a resident of Burlington, what is the most important issue facing your community, that is, the one issue you feel should receive the greatest attention from your City Council and should be a priority in the 2024 budget?”
The top three most important issues were:
#1 – Cost cuts/property taxes with 298 comments.
#2 – Road Infrastructure and Traffic Construction with 149 comments.
#3 – Density control.
Similar results can be found in the statistically valid survey conducted by Deloitte.
https://burlingtonpublishing.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=75304
Halton Region manages the following roads in Burlington:
- Dundas St. / Highway 6
- Upper Middle from Burloak to Guelph Line
- Burloak from Harvester to Upper Middle
- Derry Road
- The following roads north of Fairview
- Brant St.
- Guelph Line
- Appleby Line
Halton Region is timing the traffic lights on the above roads.
https://www.halton.ca/For-Residents/Roads-Construction/Traffic-Signals
Regional Road Map (link valid on May 5, 2024)
Burlington has an Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP). The city pays staff and consultants to develop these plans to provide guidelines for future decisions. (link valid on May 5, 2024)
“A New Strategy for Serving Growth The IMP strategy to rebalance the transportation network adds the required person-movement capacity by offering additional travel options to the existing streets, replacing the more traditional strategy of creating new capacity by widening roads.”
When asking that this plan be developed our mayor and councillors directed “that there were to be no new road widenings for the sole purpose of adding additional auto capacity”.
Burlington’s vision, as described in the Integrated Mobility Plan, is to provide dedicated bike and bus lanes. No roads will be widened for the sole purpose of adding additional auto capacity.
