Photo shows traffic at Hurontario Street and The Queensway, right next to Mississauga Hospital, during work on the Hazel McCallion Line light-rail transit route in 2024. Track work taking place near that location in 2026 is expected to cause more traffic delays. (Photo: Metrolinx)
Additional traffic delays and extra noise will continue near Mississauga Hospital as track work and other tasks are being completed on the $4.6-billion Hazel McCallion light-rail transit line, hospital officials and project leaders say.
Traffic continues to be impacted on a busy section of Hurontario Street (see map below) at and just south of The Queensway, where what will eventually be the largest hospital in Canada is being built at the southwest corner of the major intersection.
Metrolinx, the provincial agency in charge of the massive south-Mississauga-to-Brampton transit project, aka the Hazel McCallion Line, said work in the area began late March/early April and will continue until May 26 at 10 p.m.
The latest work has been divided into two phases, with the first phase now completed or nearing completion.
Trillim Health Partners, the health network that oversees Mississauga Hospital, said this week the left-turn lane from northbound Hurontario Street onto Bronte College Court was scheduled to reopen on April 28.
“Additionally, straight-through access from Sherobee Road to Bronte College Court will temporarily close,” the hospital added.
Waiting area for construction trucks
Hospital officials also noted the south shoulder of The Queensway West is being extended to create a truck waiting area.
“This provides a safe dedicated lane for construction vehicles to wait before entering the hospital site, not taking up any existing lanes on The Queensway West while maintaining clear access for hospital and community traffic,” THP said in an online update. “All trucks are required to turn off their engines while waiting.”
The hospital added trucks will use primary and secondary routes when travelling to and from the hospital’s construction site.
“Routes are on major arterial roads with direct highway access, avoiding neighbourhood roads at all times,” officials noted.
Additional construction information can be accessed via Trillium Health Partners updates.
Construction on LRT line to take place any day of the week
Metrolinx said earlier that work in the specific area to the immediate east of the hospital will be ongoing for a while.
“Crews will be welding tracks and doing concrete work for guideway installations within the intersection of Hurontario Street and Bronte College Court/Sherobee Road (just south of The Queensway),” the agency said in an early April update. “Work at this intersection will take place in two phases to help reduce impacts to the community and Trillium Health Partners. Additional lane closures will be in place during this time for utility work.”
Metrolinx added construction may take place any day of the week and at any time, “including overnight, to complete the work as quickly as possible. Traffic signal timings will be adjusted to help keep traffic moving and pedestrian access will be maintained at signalized crossings.”
Also, nearby residents and workers may notice increased noise and vibrations during the next couple of months due to work being carried out by construction equipment such as trucks, excavators, loaders and backhoes, the project leader noted.
(Source: Metrolinx)
The work is being completed in two phases. During the first phase:
Crews will begin work on the south side of the intersection.
Left turns at the intersection will be restricted.
Westbound traffic on Sherobee Road and Bronte College Court will remain open.
Detours will be in place via North Service Road and Sherobee Road.
During the second phase:
Once the south side is complete, work will move to the north side of the intersection.
Northbound left turns from Hurontario Street to Bronte College Court will be allowed (except for trucks).
Other left turns at the intersection will also be restricted.
Through traffic on Bronte College Court and Sherobee Road will be restricted.
Similar traffic restrictions are also in place at a number of other locations along Hurontario Street between Port Credit and Brampton as work progresses on the 18-kilometre Hazel McCallion Line.
When completed at a yet-to-be-determined date, the new LRT route will whisk passengers from Port Credit GO in south Mississauga north into Brampton along Hurontario Street.
It will feature more than 20 stops along the route, including several in Mississauga’s downtown core by Square One. Metrolinx received the go-ahead from the province in February 2024 to extend the LRT line by three or four kilometres into downtown Brampton and reintroduce the “downtown loop” to the City Centre area of Mississauga. The latter component will add several stops to the route.
City of Mississauga senior staff, councillors and Mayor Carolyn Parrish have long expressed frustration with ongoing delays associated with construction of the LRT line, which was initially to open in fall 2024.
Last September, Parrish described the project as “an incredible mess.” She later told INsauga.com it wouldn’t surprise her if the new LRT route didn’t take its first passengers until 2029.
That timeline has now been reportedly adjusted to suggest an early 2028 completion date, though Metrolinx has not publicly revealed any specific date for the LRT line’s completion.
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