KENSINGTON AVENUE AND CANADA WAY

About This Project

The Highway 1 and Kensington Avenue Interchange was upgraded as part of the PMH1 project through the City of Burnaby. ISL re-designed the adjacent KACW intersection to enhance the movement of goods and traffic through this high volume “Tee” intersection. ISL’s design included widening for a six-lane cross-section on each leg of the intersection, including dual left and dual right turns. The intersection was re-aligned to reduce the existing skew angle, and to tie-in with the new PMH1 interchange. Kensington Avenue was designed with a rural cross-section, while Canada Way was designed as an urban cross-section, crossing the boundaries between the jurisdictions of MOTI and the City of Burnaby. A multifaceted system of guide signs and coordinated traffic signals were designed to substantially increase traffic capacity through dual turn lanes and interchange ramps; the system mitigates complex traffic mobility challenges in a remarkably constrained space.