2010 Princess Street Reconstruction
A view of a block of reconstructed Princess Street looking up from Ontario Street toward King Street. Note the new lamp posts, planters, benches and granite curbs.
Princess Street is Kingston's street
Princess Street is where Kingstonians go to shop, meet, dine and enjoy our vibrant, lively, healthy and historic downtown. Where you are in Kingston is defined by it. We are built around it. Princess Street is our spine.
And we're taking good care of it
In 2010, the City began remaking the history on Princess Street by beautifully reconstructing it between Lake Ontario and King Street East. The reconstruction project continues in 2013 between King Street East and Wellington Street. To learn more, see the list of 2011-1014 Infrastructure Projects.
HISTORY IN THE RE-MAKING
The existing infrastructure under this part of the City is as old as Kingston itself — some of it dating back more than 200 years.
The project will see:
- The replacement of the underground utility structure, including storm and sanitary sewers, waterlines and electrical infrastructure. The reconstruction will also see the separation of storm and sanitary sewers, which will help the City prevent sewer back-ups and overflows.
- The road surface replaced, along with the installation of new traffic signals and street lights.
- 3700 square metres of asphalt laid (that is just under 9 basketball courts-worth of pavement) and 805 metres of buried pipe, equal to the length of 20 Kingston Transit buses.
- Sanitary pipe - 285 m
- Storm pipe - 205 m
- Watermain - 315 m
- Asphalt - 3700 square metres
- Concrete sidewalks - 2125 square metres
- Concrete pavers (for sidewalk boulevards) - 350 square metres
- Granite curbs - 610 m
