I want to thank the many people who have voiced their concerns to me and written or phoned alerts to the City for some time now about the desperate need for Conlin Rd. E infrastructure improvements.
PLEASE DON'T STOP PRESSING FOR THE NEEDED WORK TO BE EXPEDITED. Continue to send emails of your concerns to [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]
The missing lighting, sidewalks, and widening to four lanes are needed all the way from RITSON RD to TOWNLINE RD!
Note the construction on Conlin Rd E around Grandview St. N. finally starting this month from August 19th 2025 to November 2026 (see City Notice below) This is PHASE ONE A & B of the total road work project that has taken years too long to be added to the City Budget.
(Btw, the east extension of Greenhill Ave from of Harmony Rd N to Irvine Scott St. should be open soon and help lessen congestion when Conlin Rd. E is closed for the upcoming roundabout construction at Grandview St N. )
(This new section of Greenhill should have been opened much earlier and I have been trying to find out exactly when, especially as the Detour Map (also below) the City has provided for the upcoming Conlin Rd closure does not show it open!)
The current $12.9 million Conlin Rd. E. project which was finally added to the 2025 City Capital budget, in fact, amounts to less than half the total work required to complete bringing Conlin Rd E from Ritson Rd to Townline Rd up to urban standards from its current rural condition.
It is more than regrettable this was so poorly planned and is taking so long. The next Phases in the Capital Budget forecast, for the Conlin Rd E section from Ritson to Harmony Rd will be more than $20 million for construction over the period from 2027 to 2029.
Then the section of Conlin Rd E from Kurelo to Townline Rd staff have determined will be even later. It seems unreal considering the priority need.
Oshawa Mayor, Council members, senior staff and Oshawa Power President and Chair, and Region Chair and CAO have all heard me as the Ward 1 City Councillor, repeatedly voice my greatest worry of the risk of a serious accident happening Conlin Rd E.
My opinion, expressed many times at the City, has been that the new residential occupancies north of Conlin Rd east of Wilson should not have been approved before Conlin Rd. E., the main arterial road, was improved.
I have objected to the fact the City has directed millions to Conlin Rd West where the the Thornton Rd roundabout has been redone 3 times and the fact $10 Million+ was committed this year to the redevelopment of Stevenson Rd. from Taunton to Winchester while not giving priority to the east west arterial road for the massive residential population boom areas round Conlin Rd East and leaving it in such an unsafe situation.
PLEASE DON'T STOP PRESSING FOR THE NEEDED WORK TO BE EXPEDITED. Continue to send emails of your concerns to [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]
The missing lighting, sidewalks, and widening to four lanes are needed all the way from RITSON RD to TOWNLINE RD!
Note the construction on Conlin Rd E around Grandview St. N. finally starting this month from August 19th 2025 to November 2026 (see City Notice below) This is PHASE ONE A & B of the total road work project that has taken years too long to be added to the City Budget.
(Btw, the east extension of Greenhill Ave from of Harmony Rd N to Irvine Scott St. should be open soon and help lessen congestion when Conlin Rd. E is closed for the upcoming roundabout construction at Grandview St N. )
(This new section of Greenhill should have been opened much earlier and I have been trying to find out exactly when, especially as the Detour Map (also below) the City has provided for the upcoming Conlin Rd closure does not show it open!)
The current $12.9 million Conlin Rd. E. project which was finally added to the 2025 City Capital budget, in fact, amounts to less than half the total work required to complete bringing Conlin Rd E from Ritson Rd to Townline Rd up to urban standards from its current rural condition.
It is more than regrettable this was so poorly planned and is taking so long. The next Phases in the Capital Budget forecast, for the Conlin Rd E section from Ritson to Harmony Rd will be more than $20 million for construction over the period from 2027 to 2029.
Then the section of Conlin Rd E from Kurelo to Townline Rd staff have determined will be even later. It seems unreal considering the priority need.
Oshawa Mayor, Council members, senior staff and Oshawa Power President and Chair, and Region Chair and CAO have all heard me as the Ward 1 City Councillor, repeatedly voice my greatest worry of the risk of a serious accident happening Conlin Rd E.
My opinion, expressed many times at the City, has been that the new residential occupancies north of Conlin Rd east of Wilson should not have been approved before Conlin Rd. E., the main arterial road, was improved.
I have objected to the fact the City has directed millions to Conlin Rd West where the the Thornton Rd roundabout has been redone 3 times and the fact $10 Million+ was committed this year to the redevelopment of Stevenson Rd. from Taunton to Winchester while not giving priority to the east west arterial road for the massive residential population boom areas round Conlin Rd East and leaving it in such an unsafe situation.
