Two Peterborough Streets Labeled Top Five Worst Roads In Eastern Ontario
/Peterborough has cracked the top five list twice in CAA’s Eastern Ontario’s Worst Roads of 2024 with Lansdowne Street and Water Street making the cut.
Photo by Keegan Beekers.
Eastern Ontario includes Peterborough County, Prince Edward County, Stormont, Dundas County and more according to CAA.
The following is a list of Eastern Ontario’s top five worst roads:
County Road 49 (Prince Edward)
Glen Road (Belleville)
Water Street (Peterborough)
Queen Street (Kingston)
Lansdowne Street (Peterborough)
Peterborough avoided having one of the worst roads in the province.
They were not listed among the province’s top 10 worst roads which are as follows:
Aberdeen Avenue (Hamilton)
Eglinton Avenue West (Toronto)
Barton Street East (Hamilton)
County Road 49 (Prince Edward)
Hurontario Street (Mississauga)
Bloor Street West (Toronto)
Cedar Street North (Uxbridge)
Finch Avenue West (Toronto)
Lake Shore Boulevard East (Toronto)
Laclie Street (Orillia)
In December, the provincial government invested $10,154,936 into Peterborough-Kawartha to help renew and rehabilitate critical infrastructure for 2024.
Jeff Leal, Peterborough mayor addressed that the roads in Downtown Peterborough should be repaired as a priority during that announcement.
“As I've said many times, they're an embarrassment,” he explained in a previous interview. “An embarrassment to me and an embarrassment to every citizen in the City of Peterborough. You can't have your downtown streets in that kind of condition.”
The following is the funding going to each municipality:
North Kawartha: $100,000
Trent Lakes: $119,868
Douro-Dummer: $161,441
Havelock-Belmont-Methuen: $180,124
Selwyn: $304,404
Peterborough County: $996,071
Peterborough: $8,293,028
