$85.9M
Infrastructure repair backlog
Fiscal numbers are easy to argue about in a council chamber and easy to forget by the time you're back in your car. This page starts from the other direction: a real road, a real photo, a real jurisdiction, and then the number that explains why it looks the way it does. Every entry here is verified against the City's own records before it goes up: who's responsible for it, and what it would take to fix.
$32.8M
Annual funding shortfall
4.62%
Projected 2027 tax increase for policing alone
Entry No. 01 · Submitted by Doug
Third Concession Road
East Cherrywood, from Whites Road to Altona Road
City of Pickering · Local Road
Updated Aug 2026
This stretch of Third Concession Road runs through the heart of the Hamlet of Cherrywood: alligator cracking, patch-on-patch repairs, and no sign of a full repave in a generation.
This isn't a Regional road, and it isn't a jurisdictional grey area. Third Concession Road from Whites Road to Altona Road is confirmed as a City of Pickering local road under the City's own Through Highways by-law, distinct from the short Regional-maintained segment near Brock Road. Full responsibility, and full accountability, sits with City Council.
I've lived in Pickering for 25 years, built a business, and this is what deferred maintenance looks like. In business, you don't get to defer a problem for a generation and call it a budget line. That's what's happened here.— Doug Cornell, Mayoral Candidate
Public Ledger
- Road
- Third Concession Rd.
- Segment
- Whites Rd. – Altona Rd.
- Jurisdiction
- City of Pickering
- Responsible dept.
- Engineering Services*
- Funded by
- City tax levy
- City backlog
- $85.9M
- Status
- Interim rehab only
- Interim funding
- $597,000
- Funding approved
- March 2026
- Contract award
- Aug 6, 2026 special mtg.
Jurisdiction confirmed against the City of Pickering Through Highways By-law and the Region of Durham's Regional Roads List. Funding and scope per City Report INF 11-26 (Aug 6, 2026) and Resolution #969/26 (March 2026). *Department name pending final confirmation.
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