For the third year in a row, Hamilton has paved its way to the top of CAA’s worst road list.
Aberdeen Avenue has been named the worst road in Ontario for 2024.
The road first made its debut on the automobile associations top ten charts last year, when it came in eighth place.
It isn’t just pot holes and poor road maintenance that make’s it a terrible road however, CAA says that 13 per cent of the people it polled made their decision based on traffic congestion.
“Dundurn Street South and Locke Street south were the two most common streets chosen,” said CAA Spokesperson Teresa Di Felice.
“We know that the City of Hamilton has been looking at some various road safety initiatives and I think sometimes these change management projects around how to make everybody safer to cause some changes to how the traffic can get around.
For an arterial thoroughfare that connects to Highway 403, the city’s core and provides escarpment access — it’s certainly busy.
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Barton Street East in Hamilton made its way onto the list as well, taking the third place spot after being number one for two years in a row.
“We know that the campaign works,” said Di Felice. “Time and time again, we see roads and infrastructure projects being moved up and budgets prioritized after the road has appeared on the list.”
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After Barton Street, Burlington Street, Main Street, and Cannon Street were all voted as some of the worst roads in the city.