Transportation Corridor Management

What is a Transportation Corridor?

A transportation corridor is a defined route or area that supports the safe and efficient movement of people, goods, and services. It includes the roadway and all supporting infrastructure such as sidewalks, bike lanes, boulevards, utilities, and transit routes. These work together to connect neighbourhoods, businesses, and key destinations across the city.

Transportation corridors allow the City to coordinate planning, construction, and maintenance activities within the public right‑of‑way. This helps keep travel safe, reduces disruptions, and ensures that work is carried out in an organized and efficient manner.

About Corridor Management

The City’s Corridor Management oversees all activities that occur within the municipal road allowance. We ensure that work is completed safely, efficiently, and with minimal impact on residents, businesses, and road users.

Our team reviews and issues permits for:

  • Construction projects
  • Utility installations
  • Temporary road or sidewalk closures
  • Any activities that may affect City streets, sidewalks, or boulevards

Our role is to protect City infrastructure, support safe travel for all users, and coordinate work across Cambridge to reduce conflicts, delays, and unnecessary disruptions.

For any new driveway access to your property, or alterations to your existing access, you are required to complete and submit an Access Permit application. This must include a design drawing that clearly shows both the existing and proposed dimensions of your driveway, including the length of any required curb cuts and the materials you intend to use for the alteration. Please note that the maximum permitted driveway width is 7m, while ensuring that a minimum of 45% landscape space is met.

To obtain the application form please email transportation@cambridge.ca 

Submitting Your Application

Once your application and design drawing are complete, please visit the Service Cambridge desk on the first floor of City Hall to pay the required $204 fee (plus tax). Remember to include a copy of your payment receipt with your submission.

Application Review

After the City receives your complete application package, our team will begin the review process.

Tree Removal Considerations

If a City-owned tree must be removed to accommodate your proposed driveway widening, the Forestry team will assess the tree and determine the valuation for its removal and replacement. All tree-related work will be carried out by the City, and the associated costs will be the responsibility of the resident.

The City of Cambridge approves and issues permits for any planned work on the City Right of Ways. You must apply for a Highway Occupancy Permit to occupy:

  • City roadways
  • Shoulders
  • Sidewalks
  • Boulevards

A permit is needed for all work in, over, under, across or along a City Right of Way, including:

  • Excavating
  • Cutting or trenching
  • Installing or constructing infrastructure
  • Moving or relocating infrastructure
  • Removing infrastructure
  • Adjusting or altering infrastructure
  • Cleaning or maintaining infrastructure
  • Testing infrastructure
  • Repairing, replacing or improving infrastructure
  • Storing materials and/or bins (Permitted April 1st to October 31st)

How to apply for a permit

You must apply for a permit before any work can begin. Please allow:

  • 10 business days to process permits for full road closures
  • 5 business days to process permits for work requiring lane closures
  • 3 business days for work not requiring lane closures

Permit applications cost $300.00+ HST.

To obtain an application for a Highway Occupancy Permit please email transportation@cambridge.ca with your request.

Other permit requirements

Your permit application must also meet the following requirements: