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.
Current Work
Starting the week of July 5th, minor work will be completed on the project, including interlock, finishing details on planters and the placement of street furniture (i.e. benches and bike racks).
Accessible Parking changes: Construction on lower Princess Street affects the availability of some accessible parking spaces. Find suggested alternative spaces on the Accessible Parking page.
The City, in partnership with Utilities Kingston and Len Corcoran Excavating, is reconstructing the foot of Princess Street as part of the Downtown Action Plan. The 2010 reconstruction project runs from Princess Street below Ontario Street up to King Street. Also affected will be King Street between Brock and Princess Streets.
The work will start in Spring of 2010 and should be completed by July 1, 2010. A detailed construction schedule will be posted here closer to the start of construction.
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
