What’s Going on Here?: New Nobleton sign, parkette at King Township intersection

Construction expected to be completed this summer

Yorkregion.com
March 14, 2019
Amanda Persico

The intersection at King Road and Highway 27 in King Township is getting overhauled by York Region. This intersection is part of a larger project to improve high-volume intersections across the region in an effort to improve traffic flow.

Just the facts:

• Construction started in April 2018 and is expected to be complete by this summer.
• The project was supposed to be complete by the end of 2018, but construction was delayed due to utility and weather issues.
• The majority of construction is complete, expect for landscaping features, brick columns, tree and bush planting, paving the top coat of asphalt and adding permanent lane markings.
• Construction is currently shut down for the winter and will resume in the spring; planting will be completed in the spring, and paving in the hot weather.
• The budget is $6.5 million.
• King Township and the region are cost-sharing on streetscape enhancements.
• When construction resumes in the spring, motorists can expect temporary lane closures.
• When complete, the intersection will include new left-turn lanes in both northbound and southbound directions along Highway 27; enhanced features and signage such as a Nobleton sign, columns, raised planter beds and a parkette on the northeast corner; enhanced intersection accessibility such as pedestrian zebra crossings, audible pedestrian signals, tactile crossing indicators; new sidewalks and modernized traffic signals.