A major bridge in Mississauga that moves large numbers of motorists across the Credit River each day has completely reopened to traffic after undergoing significant renovations that took more than a year to complete.

Mississauga Ward 6 Coun. Joe Horneck said the Burnhamthorpe Road West bridges, which span the Credit River valley from The Credit Woodlands and The Riverwood Conservancy in the east to approaching Mississauga Road and University of Toronto Mississauga in the west, began taking a full load of traffic once again in mid-January.

Lane closures and other delays had been in effect since October 2023, when the major facelift project began. Large volumes of traffic were sent to other east-west routes including Highway 403, Dundas Street West and Eglinton Avenue West for the duration of the rehabilitation work.
“I am pleased to report eastbound and westbound lanes on the Burnhamthorpe Road bridges over the Credit River have been reopened this afternoon,” Horneck said in a post to social media on Jan. 15. “Final temperature-sensitive work (will) be done in the spring.”

In an online project update this past December, officials said final 2025 work on the bridges to be completed includes waterproofing and paving on the south bridge and median restoration work as well. However, that work is expected to have a minimal impact on traffic.

In advance of the bridge restoration work that began in fall 2023, Horneck told residents several months earlier it was going to be “a challenge to the neighbourhood when we have to renovate the bridge over the Credit River and it will definitely be a city event in the sense that everybody who has to go east-west will have to bite their tongue or find an alternative route.”
Technically, the $1.55-million project involved the rehabilitation of five Burnhamthorpe Road West bridges that span the Credit River (one eastbound, one westbound bridge), Mullet Creek (one eastbound, one westbound bridge) and Sawmill Valley Pedestrian Trail.