Hyde Park Road (London, Ontario)
- Hyde Park Road (London, Ontario)
Hyde Park Road is a north-south arterial road in London, Ontario, Canada. It extends from the Thames River in the Oakridge area northward through the village and road namesake of Hyde Park and north of the city to Highway 7.
History
Hyde Park Sideroad originally ran northward on a fairly straight alignment through the lowlands east of the Byron Bog. North of Oxford Street, it crossed the Canadian National Railway via a narrow truss bridge, and then crossed the Canadian Pacific Railway south of Hyde Park via a one-lane subway. In the early 1980s, Hyde Park Road was largely bypassed to the east between Oxford Street and Riverside Drive, completely avoiding the environmentally sensitive area near the bog which also included very steep grades. In 1985, the CNR and CPR grade separations were replaced with new, wider structures.
In the 1970s, there were conceptual plans for Hyde Park Road to bypass Hyde Park, to the east. This bypass was never constructed.
Hyde Park Road today is two lanes for its entire length, and experiences a high degree of traffic congestion between Oxford Street and Fanshawe Park Road. This has been the result of a large big-box development near Fanshawe Park Road.
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