Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway

Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
	Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by City of Hamilton
Length	12.5 km (7.8 mi)
History	Planned 1963; Constructed 1991–97; Opened October 15, 1997
Major junctions
West end	Highway 403; (continues as Mohawk Road)
East end	Dartnall Road ; (continues as the Red Hill Valley Parkway)
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Major cities	Hamilton
Highway system
	Ontario municipal expressways; ;
	(in alphabetical order)

The Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway, nicknamed The Linc, is a municipal expressway in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, which connects Highway 403 with the Red Hill Valley Parkway, which continues north to the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW). Collectively, the two expressways form a southern and eastern bypass of Hamilton. Located on the Hamilton mountain, atop the Niagara Escarpment, the freeway was named after the former Progressive Conservative MP and first black Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Lincoln Alexander in July 1997, despite him never holding a driver's license.

Although planning for the Red Hill Creek Expressway began in 1963, construction did not begin until 1991, by which point the project had become a contentious issue. The province agreed to split the cost for the east–west portion of the planned expressway, but opposed the north–south link. Nevertheless, construction continued throughout the mid-1990s, and the expressway opened on October 15, 1997, just over a decade before the controversial Red Hill Valley Parkway, which opened on November 17, 2007. The speed limit along the parkway is 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph).