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▶ Bridges & Underpasses (Active Transportation)

In a city of barriers, pedestrian/cycling bridges and underpasses are the connective infrastructure linking different parts of the City together.  These links shorten the road distance between two points and enable safe active transportation over or under barriers for which there is no way around, e.g. the 401 highway, the Credit River.  Such links are largely retrofit projects that weren't built when the City was almost exclusively car-oriented, hence they involve significant design and planning phases and are expensive to build.  ▶ See also: Minimum Grid - Barriers & Gaps


QEW/Credit River Active Transportation Crossings 🛣️

[Updated: May 4, 2026]

2026 PROJECT UPDATE: "During construction in 2024, Indigenous artifacts were discovered in the area of the QEW lanes on the original bridge, on the eastern edge of the site.  Due to the discovery, construction at this location stopped to enable archaeological investigations.  The investigations will continue into 2026.  Once the investigations are complete, MTO will hire a construction firm to complete the remaining works, including the North-South pedestrian bridge" [and opening of the East-West passage under the historic QEW bridge over the Credit River].  An update will be posted later in 2026. -- QEW/Credit River Improvement project News.

▶ Mississauga News article (April 30, 2026): Why isn’t the Mississauga QEW Credit River bridge project fully complete yet?  "According to the MTO, although major work concluded in 2025, key connections remain incomplete until an archaeological investigation concludes."

Image caption: "Concrete support pillars for the new pedestrian bridge [over the QEW at Stavebank Road] stand finished but disconnected" -- Ayesha Ghaffar/Metroland.

▶ View MTO's QEW/Credit River Improvement Project website.

BACKGROUND

A planned north-south Active Transportation crossing of the QEW at Stavebank Road will restore a connection which was obliterated when the QEW (formerly Middle Road) was widened and divided in the 1930s, creating a limited access freeway.  Concept image (left) presented at the MTO public workshop in December 2017.

An east-west Active Transportation crossing is also planned over the Credit River, in the utility service corridor under the heritage bridge (built in 1934) which was saved from destruction (MN article - November 26, 2019).  NOTE: A separate 1km long trail project (2025-2027) is underway to connect the east and west parts of the Nine Creeks Trail with the AT crossing over the Credit River.

The crossings will add significant connectivity to the City's planned cycling network including enhancing connections the Culham Trail running north-south from the QEW.

▶ View the City's Credit River Active Transportation Crossings webpage (includes project documents from 2016) and Study Area Map showing connections to planned off-road cycling trails.

Public Community Workshops were held for MTO's QEW Credit River Bridge project, per the Detail Design of the QEW from west of Mississauga Road to west of Hurontario Street, including a discussion of the Active Transportation connections as advocated by cycling attendees (including 3 cycling advocates now participating in MCN!).  The first Workshop took place on December 11, 2016.

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Bridges, Tunnels & Trails Tour in SE Mississauga: September 21, 2025

[Updated: September 26, 2025]

The Town of Port Credit Assocation (TOPCA) conducted their annual bike ride (Poster at left) as a tour of bridge connections just built, being built, or newly planned to be built.  The sites are listed below, #1-6.

It is cause for celebration whenever a new link is built, to safely connect parts of the potential cycling network and extend the locations that can be reached without a car.  In southeast Mississauga, over fifteen (15) years have been spent by cyclists and residents advocating for specific projects to better connect the City with its waterfront and provide safe active transportation options in an area suffering from severe traffic congestion.



Active Transportation Bridges under Construction

[Updated: October 2, 2025]

▶ See also from: Mississauga Construction Projects

1. New pedestrian/cycling bridge just south of the CNR bridge in Port Credit Memorial Park, connecting to the Port Credit GO Station.  Construction begins Fall 2025 (Groundbreaking: October 2, 2025, see sidebar) for 2026 completion; it was originally in the City's capital budget for 2041.  See: City's Port Credit Active Transportation Bridge webpage (source of concept image at left).

 

2. New AT bridge over the QEW to reconnect Stavebank Road North and South.  See: MTO's QEW/Credit River Improvement Project.  Concept image presented at the MTO public workshop in December 2017.

 

3. AT bridge over the Credit River, in the utility service corridor under the heritage bridge which was saved from destruction (MN article - 2019).  NOTE: A separate trail project (2025-2027), 1km long, is underway at this site to connect the west and east parts of the Nine Creeks Trail with the AT crossing over Credit River.  See: MTO's QEW/Credit River Improvement Project.

 

4. Ogden Avenue AT bridge over the QEW and North and South Service Roads to Applewood Plaza.  The old bridge was rickety and rusting.  The new replacement opened in December 2024 after a year and a half closure.  See: MTO's QEW/Dixie Interchange Project (source of image at left).

 

5. The City received a $17 million grant from the Government of Canada’s Active Transportation Fund toward expanding the TransCanada Trail system, linking Lakefront Promenade Park to the west and Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area (JTLCA) (open Spring 2026) to the east.  An AT bridge is planned with the continuation of the Waterfront Trail/TransCanada Trail.
▶See also: Waterfront Trail connection - JTLCA

 

6. New (eastern) underpass at Hurontario Street and the QEW is part of the Hurontario LRT reconfiguration and accommodates traffic and a multi-use path for pedestrians and cyclists to access the North Service Road and Nine Creeks Trail.  The original underpass is no longer to be used by pedestrians or cyclists.  See: Metrolinx article (includes video) New underpass installed at Hurontario and QEW.



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