The City of Hamilton has issued an urgent tender to repave and repair Dundurn Street South between King and Main streets, with no cap on how much it’s willing to spend on the project.
The city issued the tender this past week, seeking bids on a contract covering approximately 4,200 square metres of road resurfacing, 920 tonnes of asphalt paving, and 100 square metres of combined walk and curb repairs along the stretch of road — one of Hamilton’s busiest.
Construction companies have two weeks to review the bid documents, which were posted Thursday, July 30, 2026. Bids are due Friday, August 14, and the municipality intends to move quickly, issuing contracts the following week.
Officials want construction to begin Monday, August 31, with all work completed by Friday, October 2 — three weeks before Hamilton’s municipal election voting day on Monday, October 26. The city’s bid documents state it will impose liquidated damages of $1,000.00 per calendar day if the contractor fails to meet the October 2 deadline.
The contract includes several operating conditions: “all major Works, asphalt milling and paving shall be done at night”; a prohibition on working weekends “or any day the City administrative offices are closed unless approved in writing by the City”; and a requirement that “all turning movements at intersections shall be maintained at all times.” Road closures will be permitted only during night hours to complete milling and paving, and only “in one direction at a time.”
This stretch of Dundurn Street will undergo extensive reconstruction as part of the Hamilton B-Line light rail transit project. The LRT will operate on this segment of Dundurn Street as the connector transitioning the trains from Main Street service in West Hamilton to King Street service throughout central Hamilton.
The city’s bid documents do not include a budget cap for the project.
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16 commentsToo little, too late. All this resurfacing work, Barton from Kenilworth to Victoria, Main St, and now Dundurn between Main and King should have been initiated years ago.
These last minute efforts will not save anyones seat in City Council.
I would like to state that you perennial whiners are truly something else. From removing the tenements, right away; to resurfacing roads that were completed in one day, left neglected for probably forty years; and the dismissal of the AI data centre moratorium–and, this Mayor, has certainly developed a keen eye for getting things done, and for working hard. Even the Barton street mini houses for the homeless, I was not shocked by those City staff who went rogue and tried to embroil the Mayor in scandal. This Mayor has done things that no other Mayor has done–let alone council. I just think that it’s because she’s NDP that people give her such a hard time and she didn’t even follow her party’s ideology, that much. Love them or lump them–they truly are our City’s most applicable ideology. Even my nice little rainbow crosswalks are held in pristine condition rather than being left to rot, so that we can have our faces smashed in by a pharisaical-, uncaring judiciary and council, like the last ten guys. But I guess you would rather have had your car further destroyed by having the Barton Street road-work, _NOT_ done, or something. When they said that they wanted to gentrify Barton Street I laughed I didn’t think that anybody would be able to do it but that’s the first step she’s paved the roads; and, this City, last did that, probably in 1964!
(edited)Soooo….the city wants to spend all this money to repave this stretch only for it to be ripped out again for the LRT???? Makes total sense 👍🏻
Critical is Barton Street, has been for years, worst street in Ontario. I avoid it like a plague. The entire City team and Mayor need to be removed this fall
You wouldn’t have gotten that street paved, if everybody had listened to you. All you people–and, you were many. Who stated that she doesn’t do anything, this Mayor. I had met her one time and she was very kind and just a normal nice woman and person. She got the road paved I don’t know what you people want you say she doesn’t do anything she paves the road and you said she has to go. What did your guys do for the city? Absolutely nothing; they were the ones to have left Barton Street to rot and made sure that you never drove on it. Now, I can drive on it; and I’ll drive on it happily, voting for Andrea. The one who fixed the mess. You’d think this were brain surgery. I don’t know what it’s like to be so perpetually angry over absolutely nothing when somebody fixes your problems for you finally takes that tax revenue that that area has been pouring in for years and put in a brand new road in one day after it was left neglected for decades and decades and decades and decades. And you just put up a stink saying like no thank you I’m going to be still pretending like I’m angry about anything. It’s gotten past the point of ridiculousness people really need to grow up. This Mayor deserves, and needs the exact opposite, of your scorn; she needs accolades. She put the shovels in the ground and got the work done so I don’t know what people are lighting their hair on fire over I really don’t
What about the Kenilworth access and roads on the mountain
Clearly. I mean, if we give Andrea another term. She’ll get those ones done the next time.
The Mountain already gets a large amount of our tax revenue to maintain all the infrastructure for a sparsely populated area compared to the denser downtown which is neglected!
Several decades ago I lived in Hamilton and main Street was not great but it was not that bad either. Lights were timed well and traffic moved quickly. I now go down to visit family and I’m disgusted by, particularly Main Street. Admittedly, my car does not have the greatest suspension but I feel like I need to get my wheels realigned every time I go for a visit. On the bright side… Traffic is so thick and dense that there’s no way I could pick up enough speed to approach either the speed limit or the point where half a dozen bolts fall off my car while driving down Main Street.
So true, getting through the downtown is totally ridiculous. Basically beating up the suspensions in all vehicles.
The LRT will totally kill this City, in every way possible. I am going to sorely miss having been born and bred here hearing when I was maybe six years old that this City, and, that will have been when John and James were two-way streets. But I will miss when I had been hearing that this City, times its lights and that when you hit one green light you never have to worry about stopping ever for a red light for miles and miles. I’m a progressive but the nature of society is not to stay in place I’m not advocating that we constantly revert and go backward that would make for a very tragic and terrible time for the great mass of people who are not aristocratic. But people need to get voted in so that things would change and that jobs would get done so I think a lot of times we went the soft kind of safety way and now we are going to be paying for that very heavily but the way you see Main Street as it is now it’s bad it’s very bad because of the construction and they’re actually doing that work so that they never have to open up those roads again apparently the LRT is going to be all concrete so that the water mains below can never be accessed once they finish the LRT work so Main Street was not always like this sure it was bumpy but this mayor has done a lot of good roadwork lately and when the LRT work is done it’ll be very nice and smooth for the parking lot acceptance that it will be will begin to commence and we can park in front of John Sopinka. :). Will be quite the view.
(edited)It must be election season. They ruined the City for 4 years straight and now they are trying to get the votes
I don’t think I could place anything on the Mayor, as having “ruined the City”. We have the issues that all cities our size have and none of them I don’t think can be blamed on one individual or even ideology because I think this Mayor has been actually very pragmatic and has gotten a lot of work done. And the strategies that we were employing up to this point are not ones that ever were going to work to just incarcerate everybody and do the Doug Ford Way. I don’t think that that is any way to shape a society–I really don’t–when, he is heads-up in corruption; and has always been; his entire-family basically flouting the laws and dealing drugs.
(edited)This urgent repave should have been completed years ago for Barton Street first, which is by far the worst road in Ontario. Well maintained infrastructure promotes new businesses and residents to relocate here. Clearly city council needs to get there priorities straight or risk facing a major overhaul on election day.
Why do people act like Barton Street hasn’t been paved? Maybe it takes a bit of time for the news to get out but it’s pretty well done. Give her another term and you’ll see the work finish; but, put in, some kind of (f)right-wing piece of work; and you’d see nothing but graft and laziness–like we always have, in this city. Until Andrea came along, I would like to state and to think. If the worst thing that anybody could say was that she had a family kind of dispute with somebody who lives out of her house that she takes his rent? And it’s like I can see these pantomime women lining up with little southern Belle umbrellas, exclaiming and placing the backs of their hands at their forehead; barely being able to stand upright. The day gets quite hot, when people light their hair on fire. I leave the drama and the illiteracy, to such backward areas of the backward country to our south–we don’t need that stuff up here.
(edited)I bet they want to do this so whoever wins the October election can not reverse the LRT