Niagara Parks closes parkway lane for Fort Erie breakwall repairs

Niagara Parks has closed one lane of the Niagara Parkway just south of the Peace Bridge so construction trucks can reach the Fort Erie breakwall without stopping traffic, the agency said in a public notice Tuesday.

The single-lane setup covers the shoreline construction zone and is expected to stay in place until the work ends in late October. Before the change, crews periodically stopped traffic on the parkway so trucks loaded with large rock could back into the work site.

Trucks now wait inside the closed lane and enter the site without halting other vehicles. Niagara Parks said the change means fewer interruptions for drivers and removes the need for trucks to back across multiple lanes of traffic.

Flag workers remain on site to direct vehicles past the work zone. The agency asked drivers to use caution, follow posted signage and leave extra space for crews and equipment.

The breakwall repairs are part of the agency’s Shoreline Protection Strategy, launched in 2025 to defend the shoreline, adjacent parkland and recreational trails against severe weather and erosion. In the first phase, crews repaired a section of breakwall behind Mather Arch Park and restored damaged stretches of the Niagara River Recreation Trail between Old Fort Erie and Mather Arch.

This year’s work adds further breakwall repairs and reinforcements, including in-water rock protection designed to absorb wave energy and slow erosion.

The lane restriction is the second active Niagara Parks construction zone on the parkway in Fort Erie.

Resurfacing between Service Road 12 and the north end of Black Creek Bridge began July 30 and is scheduled to finish August 14, weather permitting.

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