The work of the City's Corporate Asset Management, Development Services, and Infrastructure departments each impact various design and construction projects across Barrie. Corporate Facilities' planning and development staff oversee facility projects that support select City services.
Construction projects may require road closures.
Generally speaking, infrastructure projects are informed by a master plan or planning process, and project cycles may include environmental assessment studies, detailed design, then construction. Projects are ordered below as per the latest update.
Type: Roads
Status: In Progress
The annual Pavement Management Program includes resurfacing roads, which mainly involves the repair of defects, such as cracks, and rutting found in the top layers of the road.
Type: Roads; Stormwater & Creeks; Underground Infrastructure
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Spring 2028
As a key transportation corridor, Mapleview Drive East will undergo several transportation improvements to accommodate the growth of Barrie to 2031.
Type: Roads; Stormwater & Creeks
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Fall 2028
MTO is constructing a new bridge at the crossing of Dunlop Street over Highway 400.
Type: Roads; Underground Infrastructure
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Spring 2028
Transportation improvements on Huronia Road between Lockhart Road and the south city limit.
Type: Roads; Underground Infrastructure
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Spring 2028
The City's Active Transportation Master Plan identified McKay Road East as a key transportation corridor and recommended several transportation improvements to accommodate the growth of Barrie to 2031.
Type: Underground Infrastructure
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: 2028
Installing a dedicated trunk sanitary sewer along St. Paul’s Crescent, Yonge Street and Big Bay Point Road, from Mapleview Drive East to the Lover’s Creek trunk sanitary sewer.
Type: Roads; Underground Infrastructure
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Fall 2026
The annual program includes installing new watermains and lining existing watermains.
Type: Roads; Stormwater & Creeks; Underground Infrastructure
Status: Substantially Completed
To reconstruct all infrastructure and roadways in Barrie's Queens Park Neighbourhood.
Type: Facilities
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: 2028
A new mixed-use facility consisting of administrative, operational, maintenance, and related spaces to support growth and demand to treat wastewater.
Type: Parks & Forestry
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: July 2027
New access points to the trail & the Kempenfelt shoreline, prioritize the naturalized state of the trail, and improve drainage.