By Gazette Staff
January 8th, 2026
BURLINGTON, ON
The single item on the Tuesday Special Council meeting was the consider the Staff recommendation to approve the 23 storey tower at 2076 Old Lakeshore Road.
That event took up 3 1/2 hours.
All kinds of stuff came to the service.
The procurement of software that will track traffic passing through the city on a where from and where to basis. Link to that story is set out below.
Traffic on the QEW that takes the Walkers Line off-ramp works its way into Burlington in the afternoon traffic rush.
There was another item that will please a lot of people: “We’ve had lots of consultation with our partners at the Ministry of Transportation. We are in the final stages presenting a draft proposal to the ministry to look at making some changes to the off-ramps on the QEW.
“This is one major concern to try to restrict or to limit the amount of traffic that is coming off the QE W and filtering into our community. It is being presented to the ministry, hopefully it will be sent out next week for their review.”
A Burlington resident who was on the QEW around 5:00 pm said: “Walkers is just one example. Traffic will be heading down to Lakeshore from Burloak, Appleby, Walkers, maybe even Guelph and Brant, as drivers get frustrated.
“We drove along Lakeshore last night, about this time to visit friends in Grimsby, most of the traffic on Lakeshore got on the QEW at Northshore heading over the Skyway.”
It would be really interesting to read what the Burlington Transportation sends to the Ministry of Transportation.
Related news story:
City has software that can track the flow of traffic in and out of the downtown core.
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The past two days the traffic has been stopped on Guelph line at the off ramps from the QEW. There were obvious problems on the highway and all the big rigs were coming off into Burlington to avoid the highway. What should have been a ten minute drive at most took almost half an hour. Something has to be done.