The 2026 Renew London program includes about $285 million in new projects plus another $100 million in ongoing work from 2025. With many projects active at once, residents can face overlapping closures, detours and shifting timelines. Large projects can change in cost or schedule, the same corridors can face repeated disruption, and residents do not always have one simple public record showing the current date, cost and responsible project lead. The Streets bylaw even charges a fee to cut a fresh road — but has no rule against it.
The Issues · Roads & Construction
If the road is torn up, the public should be able to track the job.
Construction is disruptive. Being left in the dark should not be. If the date slips, the cost changes or the same street gets torn up again, show people why, who is responsible and when the job will actually be finished.
Start here
Show the date. Show the cost. Show who is responsible.
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My position
If a road is torn up, the public should not have to guess when it will be finished, why the date changed, what the final cost became or who is responsible for fixing deficiencies. Construction disruption is sometimes unavoidable; being left in the dark is not.
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What I would put forward
For major road work, put the basics in one place: who is leading the file, the original finish date, the current finish date, whether it is 30+ days late, why the cost changed and what deficiencies are still open.
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What this looks like in real life
Your street is torn up, the detour changes, the finish date passes and nobody can tell you whether the project is two weeks late or three months late. Or you own a shop that is still open, but customers think the whole block is closed. One public project record should tell you the current date, the access plan, what changed and who is responsible.
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How you would know
Residents should be able to compare the promised date and cost with the actual date and cost, see what is late and know whether major deficiencies are still open.
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When I would start
30 days: request the public project-status standard. 100 days: request staff options for documenting contractor performance, flagging overdue work and showing when projects run over budget. 12 months: seek the first full public comparison of what was promised versus what was actually finished.
The numbers
What we're tearing up, and what we can't see.
$385M
New + continuing Renew London work (2026)
$285M in new projects plus $100M in ongoing work from 2025; more than 100 lane-km of road and 30+ km of water, storm and sanitary infrastructure. Source: City of London, Mar. 26, 2026.
$87.6M
Adelaide underpass completed project cost
The City reports the completed Adelaide Street North Underpass as an $87.6 million project supported by all levels of government. Source: City of London, 2025.
$1,000/day
Liquidated damages in standard conditions
The campaign has not identified one public report showing when this clause has been applied. Source: City of London General Conditions of Contract.
No single public report identified
Contractor performance reporting
The campaign has not identified one London public contractor-performance report comparable to Ottawa’s vendor-performance system. Source: City procurement material reviewed by the campaign.
Why this matters
What is going wrong, what I would change, and what residents should see improve.
Use the tools already bought: a binding coordinated schedule with a cap on how many closures can hit one corridor at once, a 30-day-overdue red flag on the construction map, dated photo-and-video proof of completion before the final cheque, a named City lead per project, and a public record of contractor performance showing whether a company missed dates, left deficiencies, triggered penalties or had poor performance documented for future City work.
The work in front of your house has a finish date you can check, a red flag the day it's late, and a photo proving it's actually done before the contractor gets paid. Parallel routes stay open when one is torn up, and the road that just got paved doesn't get dug up again next year. One name to call, one number to check.
Where to go next.
BISSON13 · Ward 13