Spring cleaning, on a massive scale, is about to begin in Mississauga.

While residents will soon challenge themselves to complete a thorough tidy-up of their bedrooms, basements, closets, backyards and garages, the City of Mississauga is targeting numerous kilometres of roads, sidewalks and park trails in addition to many other corners of the city.

City officials said on Monday the arrival of mild weather “means our spring maintenance and cleanup work can begin.”

And it’s a pretty big undertaking, they added.

Among the major components of the city’s annual maintenance and cleaning effort is the filling in of the usual hundreds of potholes that pop up on roads across Mississauga during winter.

This past winter, said Sam Rogers, the city’s commissioner of transportation and works, has been “awful” and with that “comes a lot of damage to roads, including potholes.”

In addition to pothole/asphalt repairs on roads and bike lanes, the city’s spring cleanup and maintenance program also includes:

Sidewalk inspection and repair.
Sod damage repair — damage caused by snow-clearing operations.
Litter cleanup on roadways, catch basins and drains.
Street sweeping and hard surface flushing on curb-facing sidewalks, traffic islands, hard-surfaced boulevards, roads, curbside gutters and on-street bike lanes.
Illegal sign removal.

City crews say they will also get parks, green spaces and trails ready for the busy spring and summer seasons. This work includes:

Litter cleanup.
Preparing plant beds for planting.
Cleanup of trails and turf areas.
Preparing and maintaining sports fields for the upcoming season.
Trimming trees, hedges and bushes away from roadways and sidewalks.
Maintaining recently planted trees, including burlap removal, minor pruning, replacing tree stakes and reforming mulch rings.

“Winter’s been tough on our roads,” city officials said in a post to social media, noting while their significant pothole repair program gets underway as the weather warms up, “we repair potholes year-round when temperatures are warmer and the weather allows for it.”

Anyone who spots a pothole is urged to report it to the city online or by calling 311.

Sam Rogers, the City of Mississauga’s commissioner of transportation and works, says an “awful winter” has damaged roads.

Each spring/summer, city crews use several hundred tonnes of hot mix asphalt to fix numerous potholes on Mississauga roads. The common road hazard can cost drivers hundreds of dollars each in car repairs and can cause collisions as well.

Potholes pop up by the hundreds during and following each winter in Mississauga, the city has said, and crews work to repair them as quickly as possible.

“In the winter, freezing and thawing can cause water under asphalt to expand and contract, which can lead to potholes and cracks in the roadway,” city officials said in an early 2025 news release.

According to the Canadian Automobile Association (Ontario), which each year produces a top 10 list of the “Worst Roads in Ontario,” pothole damage to a vehicle can cost from $500 to $2,000, depending on the car model, to repair. The most recent average repair cost is $933, the association added.

Furthermore, a recent survey conducted by the CAA shows nearly half of respondents have experienced vehicle damage because of poor roads. The survey also found that cracked pavement remains the most dominant road-related issue (88 per cent), followed by potholes (84 per cent) and congestion (81 per cent).

(Cover photo: City of Mississauga)


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