Wharncliffe Road construction delayed | CTV News [Video]

Roadwork to eliminate one of London’s worst traffic bottlenecks has been delayed by a decision not to fund its skyrocketing price tag.

During multi-year budget deliberations earlier this year, the mayor and council did not fund a $39.6 million increase to the cost of the Wharncliffe Road South Improvements project, which includes replacing the aged rail overpass just north of Horton Street.

Council has punted a decision on the funding to the next multi-year budget, which begins in 2028.

The new overpass would no longer require northbound drivers to merge from two lanes down to a single lane to pass beneath the tracks.

The merge has become a bottleneck that can create a line of vehicles that extends beyond Byron Avenue.

Driver Chantelle Pierson believes the long line of stopped traffic poses a hazard, “Accidents can happen because people are trying to maneuver their way in, something terrible is going …