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•The IFP• H alton H ills, Thursday, A ugust 29, 2013 21 www.halton.ca Your Halton Connection September 2013 We welcome your feedback. Contact us at AccessHalton@halton.ca Building a better Regional road network by Regional Chair Gary Carr Do you know when you're driving on a Regional road? The names will be familiar. Dundas Street, Derry Road, Appleby Line, Trafalgar Road and Tremaine Road are just a few of the more than 20 roads that make up the network that helps move people and goods north and south, and east and west through Halton Region. In 2011, Halton Region's Transportation Master Plan - The Road to Change - established a 20-year, $2.4 billion capital program to meet transportation demand to 2031. The master plan is the blueprint for the Regional road work you are seeing today and the significant changes still to come. The transportation capital program requires a substantial investment balanced with the Region's commitment to keeping taxes low. Over the past seven years, Halton's capital budget for roads has increased from $50 million in 2006 to $289 million in 2013. At the same time, residents have experienced an average zero per cent tax increase for Regional services, one of the best records in Canada. Halton's annual capital investments will transform the Regional road network. By the end of 2016, segments of all 15 major Regional road corridors will have been improved to provide additional capacity and 153 kilometres of new lanes. East-west capacity on portions of our Regional roads will increase by 16 additional lanes and the north-south capacity will increase by 14 additional lanes. In addition, 217 kilometres of shared or dedicated on-road bike lanes and off-road multi-use pathways will have been provided as part of the Region's Active Transportation Master Plan. Your patience is truly appreciated as we work to make Halton Region an even better place to live, work, raise a family and retire. We're keeping you informed Learn more about Regional construction projects underway or planned in your area at www.halton.ca/construction. You'll find individual project information listed by street name, alerts for road closures and traffic impacts, and links to local construction information for the City of Burlington, the Town of Halton Hills, the Town of Milton and the Town of Oakville. You can also subscribe to Halton Region's Construction Update e-newsletter to learn more about construction progress and future work planned for the Region's transportation corridors. Please contact us as soon as possible, if you have any accessibility needs at Halton Region events or meetings. This page has been donated by this newspaper to communicate important information to Halton residents at no cost to taxpayers. Know Your Regional Roads Regional roads form an important transportation network across Halton ������ ��� ��� ��������� �� ���� ������� ��� ������ Improvements Completed Meetings at Halton Region www.halton.ca/meetings Sept. 2 Offices closed for Labour Day Sept. 11, 9:30 a.m. Regional Council Sept. 24, 9:30 a.m. Health & Social Services Committee Sept. 25, 9:30 a.m. Planning & Public Works Committee Sept. 25, 1:30 p.m. Administration & Finance Committee Sixteen Mile Creek Bridge and six-lane widening on Dundas Street (Neyagawa Boulevard to Proudfoot Trail) in the Town of Oakville New Tremaine Road roundabout (looking east along Main Street) in the Town of Milton New four-lane James Snow Parkway extension (Regional Road 25 to Steeles Avenue) including new railway overpass in the Town of Milton Steeles Avenue improvements (east of Trafalgar Road) in the Town of Halton Hills 18 Brant Street 1 Guelph Line 20 Appleby Line 21 Burloak Drive 22 Tremaine Road 25 Bronte Road/ Regional Road 25 17 Dorval Drive 4 Neyagawa Boulevard/ James Snow Parkway 3 Trafalgar Road 13 Ninth Line 19 Winston Churchill Boulevard 38 Upper Middle Road 5 Dundas Street 27 Burnhamthorpe Road 6 Britannia Road 7 Derry Road 8 Steeles Avenue 9 Campbellville Road (west of Guelph Line) 11 Maple Avenue (Georgetown) Also includes sections of: 10 10 Side Road 34 20 Side Road 32 32 Side Road North - South East - West