Municipal Infrastructure Projects

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.

2026 infrastructure projects map

Aerial view of a freshly paved suburban street with line markings, lined with houses and trees.
Type: Roads
Status: Recently Completed

Completed in September 2026. 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.
A freshly paved rural road lined with trees and fields.
Type: Roads
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: October 2026

A holding strategy is a reactive approach to pavement management, generally applicable to roads proposed for construction in future years of the Capital Plan.
A construction site showing a dug out trench with a long white pipe reaching from the trench into the back of a truck.
Type: Underground Infrastructure
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Fall 2027

This project involves lining 1,400 metres of an existing 500 mm diameter concrete pressure pipe watermain on Huronia Road between Big Bay Point Road and Little Avenue due to deterioration.
Construction workers operate machinery near a deep trench on a residential street.
Type: Roads; Underground Infrastructure
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Fall 2026

The annual program includes installing new watermains and lining existing watermains.
Owen street construction progressing
Type: Roads; Underground Infrastructure
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Summer 2027

Upgrading the storm sewer system along Owen St. and Sophia St. E to reduce flooding risk to the downtown & replacing all existing infrastructure.
Map showing extent of existing and sidewalk
Type: Roads
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Spring 2027

Infrastructure improvements on Edgehill Drive (Pringle Drive to Ferndale Drive North).
Aerial view of two roads surrounded by green trees and scattered houses.
Type: Roads; Stormwater & Creeks; Underground Infrastructure
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Spring 2028

Reconstructing and widening of Yonge Street (Mapleview to Lockhart) to five lanes, a cycle-track and a sidewalk.
Aerial view of a suburban landscape with roads, residential buildings, and green fields.
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.
Rendering of the proposed Wastewater Innovation Centre
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.
Downed large tree with ice-covered branches
Type: Parks & Forestry
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Fall 2027

Replacement of City trees lost to the ice storm on March 30, 2025.