Leadership in London is looking back at construction milestones reached in 2026
The City of London is closing out its 2025 construction season after a year focused largely on underground infrastructure needed to support growth, improve safety and modernize transportation systems.
City officials say projects this year helped enable new housing, safer streets, better transit and expanded cycling and pedestrian networks, despite short-term disruptions caused by construction.
Highlights included completion of the Adelaide Underpass, which eased congestion and emergency response times and earned a 2025 Municipal Engineers Association award. Major work also advanced at Fanshawe Park Road and Richmond Street, Colonel Talbot Road, and the Oxford Street and Gideon Drive roundabout.
In total, the city reconstructed 61 lane-kilometres of road, added 11 kilometres of bike lanes and 10 kilometres of sidewalks, upgraded 25 intersections, and installed more than 20 kilometres of water, sewer and storm infrastructure.
Rapid Transit construction also reached milestones, with the Downtown Loop fully open and work continuing on the East London Link and Wellington Gateway corridors into 2026.
