'It’s going to be crazy': Drivers and businesses prepare for reduced lanes at Oxford Street and Highbury Avenue
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Approximately 35,000 vehicles travel through the intersection and Oxford Street East and Highbury Avenue North everyday.
Approximately 35,000 vehicles travel through the intersection and Oxford Street East and Highbury Avenue North everyday.
Beginning this week drivers, pedestrians, and nearby residents will need to prepare for significant delays due to the start of construction for phase 3C of the East London Link and Municipal Infrastructure Improvements projects.
“It’s going to be crazy over the next few months,” said Jorge Ulloa, a student at Fanshawe College, just a few hundred metres east of the main intersection.
As a result, there will be lane restrictions in effect on Highbury Avenue North between Oxford Street East and the north limit of the Highbury Avenue North overpass. Reduced lanes will also be in effect along Oxford Street East from just a few metres east of the Highbury Avenue intersection to near Wistow Street.
“You're going to start to see cones and equipment mobilizing on the site,” said Jennie Dann, director of Construction for the City of London. “There'll be one lane of traffic in each direction. So you're going to see those cones there to reduce the lanes down to one but we asked the people, you know, keep moving through. We're going to try to maintain access to businesses as best as possible, but also keep traffic flowing.”
The city said the project is planned until December and are encouraging people to find alternate routes when possible.
