Staying on top of planned and unplanned traffic conditions

You can stay on top of anything happening on our streets with a City webpage detailing any upcoming major traffic impacts. These are mostly related to planned construction and special events, like Canada Day celebrations. Our interactive traffic map(link is external) also provides that information as well as timely data on unplanned impacts caused by collisions or weather events. In addition, the map pinpoints the locations of parking lots, park-and-ride lots, automated speed enforcement cameras, red light cameras and more.

Converting the entire town

Our streetlight conversion team recently finished replacing more than 58,000 streetlight fixtures with LED lighting and monitoring technology. The newer technology provides more consistent light, a prolonged life expectancy and less down time for each streetlight. The benefits include reduced light pollution, reduced energy consumption, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and substantial cost savings. Last week, the project and its team won the City's Environmental Excellence Award for its helping build a greener and more sustainable municipality.

It's all in the timing

Our operators continuously monitor traffic controls at the city's more than 1,200 signalized intersections. Signal timing is set with the goals of:

• Improving traffic flow
• Keeping all road users safe
• Reducing idling and the resulting emissions, to improve air quality

When needed, operators can immediately adjust the traffic signal timing and phasing for key intersections. When a problem is detected by the system or reported by the public, an operator resolves it or immediately dispatches it to maintenance crews.