Keeping all corners of the city and the surrounding areas connected together.

Lower City (below Escarpment)

Mountain (Escarpment)

As you can see, there are many roads in Hamilton and the greater surrounding area. Many streets streets that have recently converted from one-way to two-way.

Accessibility / Getting Around

Hamilton is connected to the GTA, as well as the rest of Southern Ontario, through the Queen Elizabeth Way. This is a major highway that makes travelling throughout the region a breeze. In addition to connecting with Toronto Proper, the QEW becomes the Gardiner Expressway once you hit the city. The Gardiner is an arterial thoroughfare that cuts across Toronto’s waterfront, making it easy to travel throughout the community. It also makes it easy to reach the different employment centres. The Gardiner connects to the Don Valley Parkway too, putting even more within reach.

If you need to commute to the GTA, but you don’t want to drive, there’s good news! The Hamilton GO Centre is located in the downtown core, and it connects to Union Station at the southern point of Toronto’s Financial District.

If you’re looking to take public transit around the local community, then you’re going to be taking the HSR, which mostly operates a fleet of buses throughout the city, but it’s about to get a whole lot better. Along with Metrolinx, the HSR is planning on implementing the first phase of its BLAST Network. Once complete, BLAST will provide comprehensive light rail transit throughout the city. The B Train is the first phase, and it will serve the arterial Main/King corridor — stretching from McMaster University in the west to Eastgate Square in the east.

The city also has an international airport. The John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport offers commercial flights throughout Canada and the United States, but it’s also used as an important industrial shipping airport. The city is debating whether it should build an Aeropolis around the airport, which would make it one of the most important job centres in the GTA.

Numbered roads in Hamilton, Ontario

Roadway / Settlements served

Highway #5 Troy, Peters Corners, Clappison’s Corners, Waterdown

Highway #8 Peters Corners, Christies Corners, Greensville, Dundas, Hamilton, Stoney Creek, Fruitland, Winona

Highway #20 Stoney Creek, Elfrida

Highway #52 Peters Corners, Copetown, Summit

Highway #56 Elfrida, Binbrook

Highway #65 Trinity, Carluke, Binbrook

Highway #97 Valens

Highway #99 Lynden, Copetown, Dundas

Highways and expressways / Hamilton, Ontario:

Queen Elizabeth Way, north Hamilton and Stoney Creek

Highway 403, Ancaster and west Hamilton

Highway 2, various streets, including York Boulevard and Dundurn Street.

Highway 5, decommissioned in 1997 by the Ontario Government. Currently runs from Highway 6 at Clappison’s Corners, north.

Highway 6, Flamborough, Hamilton and Glanbrook, including access to John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport

Highway 8, Dundas (Cootes Drive), Hamilton and Stoney Creek

Highway 20, East Hamilton

Highway 53, Rymal Road, Hamilton

Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway, ‘The LINC,’ Mountain

Red Hill Valley Parkway, Joins the LINC with the QEW, East Hamilton

Burlington Street (upper deck), north Hamilton