List of roads in London, Ontario
The city is organized in a grid pattern that dates back to the early 19th century, where it is based on the former Townships of London and Westminster.
It runs through London where it is bisected into northern and southern segments by the south branch of the Thames River and ends at Commissioners Road East.
In 2018 the city announced that Adelaide Street between Central and Pall Mall will be converted to an underpass under the Canadian Pacific rail tracks.
Base Line Road was never developed as a continuous roadway due to some obstructive terrain, particularly west of Westmount Drive.
Sanatorium Road continues north, joining Riverside Drive and ending at Oxford Street in the Oakridge area.
It begins where Riverside Drive eastbound crosses the Thames River, and ends at the eastern city limits, although travelers continuing east through Thamesford and Woodstock also will still be on Dundas Street until it changes its name to Governors Road and becomes discontinuous near Paris.
Hamilton Road is a 10.0-kilometre-long (6.2 mi) main east–west route, on a diagonal with the grid network, from the core area to the southeast city limits.
Horton Street is a 3.5-kilometre-long (2.2 mi) main thoroughfare in the core area of London, the most direct and widest artery south of the CNR railway tracks, between Hamilton Road and Springbank Drive.
A 1971 official plan envisioned construction of the missing link, but is not now expected, the road to the west being of minor significance, and amid environmental considerations through the ravine.
There is no current information on the routing of Huron in the vicinity of William and Maitland prior to the development of the area as part of London.
It extends from the Thames River in the Oakridge area northward through the village and road namesake of Hyde Park and through Ilderton north of the city to Highway 7.
Hyde Park Sideroad originally ran northward on a fairly straight alignment through the lowlands east of the Byron Bog.
In the early 1980s, Hyde Park Road was largely bypassed to the east between Oxford Street and Riverside Drive, completely avoiding the environmentally sensitive area near the bog which also included very steep grades.
[7] King Street is an east–west road along a 4.67-kilometre-long (2.90 mi) pair of rights-of-way between the Thames River and Highbury Avenue, broken into two segments by the closure of part of that right-of-way for Queens Park.
Its western segment is a 2.96 kilometres (1.84 mi) eastbound one-way road that complements westbound Queens Avenue, and has many older business establishments as well as passing through the midst of the large downtown mall.
The eastern segment, separated from the other by Queens Park, is a 1.22-kilometre-long (0.76 mi) two-way road that formerly extended another 180 metres (590 ft) to Florence Street.
The first block is relatively quiet, but becomes a busy artery carrying traffic west before merging with Riverside Drive just past the Thames River.
With two westbound lanes, fewer signalized intersections and more residential areas, it provides a slightly faster transit westward.
It starts at the Thames River where it connects with the residential Carfrae Crescent, passing through the core of the city, veering westward beyond Huron Street and continuing northward beyond Windermere Road.
Previously traffic heading westbound on Dundas Street West had to turn right at Wharncliffe Road in order to get to Mount Pleasant Avenue.
Around this time the Riverside Drive designation was extended eastward along Mount Pleasant Avenue and Dundas Street West to the Kensington Bridge.
Riverside Drive was also realigned in 1977 at Hutton Road when the Guy Lombardo Bridge was built, with a four-lane diversion to the north of the original alignment.
[7] The Veterans Memorial Parkway (VMP) is a 13.4 km (8.3 mi) expressway located in London, Ontario, with a non-expressway extension north to Clarke Road.
Long term plans / proposals for the route include north and south extensions of the road and grade separated interchanges along its entire length, converting it to a freeway.
[13] Most of the Wellington Road corridor is home to many commercial and institutional establishments such as White Oaks Mall, LHSC Victoria Hospital and various hotels and restaurants.
Wellington Road will be part of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project with construction expected to start in 2023.
It starts in the north at Kains Road in the Riverbend neighborhood and ends in the south at Southminster Bourne in Southwold Township.
Expansive residential growth in North London, along with its proximity to the university campus and hospital, led to serious road deficiencies.
At one time, an extension was considered beyond Wharncliffe, south under the CNR tracks to connect with Beaconsfield Avenue and continue to Springbank Drive.
Instead, city council chose to build the Horton Street extension which then followed Beaconsfield Avenue west from Wharncliffe to join Springbank Drive.
