Project Updates
What is Happening Now?
The QEW Garden City Skyway Project is currently in the design phase, with detailed engineering work underway to refine the alignment, structural components, and technical specifications for the new twin bridges. During this stage, the project team is completing early site preparation activities, such as borehole sampling, geotechnical investigations, and localized brush removal in areas necessary for future infrastructure. The team is also working closely with local utilities, municipalities, and agencies to confirm construction methods and ensure that any on-site activities cause minimal disruption. As the design progresses, updates regarding schedule, staging, early works, and traffic management will be provided on this page.
Traffic Impacts
Components of the proposed design that will impact traffic include:
Realignment of municipal roads including portions of Dieppe Road, Dunkirk Road, Queenston Street, York Road, Niagara Stone Road, Taylor Road, Coon Road, Queenston Road.
Minor changes to the speed-change lanes of the eastbound on-ramp and westbound off-ramp will be done at Niagara Street Interchange and the westbound on-ramp and eastbound off-ramp to Glendale Avenue South at the Glendale Avenue Interchange.
The eastbound Niagara Interchange ramps will be realigned slightly to accommodate QEW alignment shifts and to accommodate new auxiliary lanes (i.e. truck-climbing lanes) that will be continuous in both directions.
East of the Welland Canal, the Glendale Avenue Interchange eastbound off-ramp and westbound on-ramp speed-change lanes will be modified to accommodate the new continuous auxiliary lanes (i.e. truck-climbing lanes).
During construction this website will be kept up to date with current road closures and detours.
MTO and IO recently consulted with Niagara Region, the City of St. Catharines, and Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake and received recent traffic flow data and construction standards to better inform project planning for the affected roadways.
Information has also been obtained from the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation and the Niagara District Airport to ensure construction meets necessary requirements that will ensure continued vessel passage.
Current Traffic Impacts
There are no current traffic impacts.