Red Hill Valley Parkway

Red Hill Valley Parkway
Red Hill Valley Parkway highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by City of Hamilton
Length	6 km (3.7 mi)
History	Proposed during 1956,[1] Opened November 17, 2007[2] Extended September 2017 (Upper Red Hill Valley Parkway)
Major junctions
South end	Rymal Road (Upper Red Hill Valley Parkway) Dartnall Road (Red Hill Valley Parkway) Continues as Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway)
Major intersections	King Street
North end	Queen Elizabeth Way
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Major cities	Hamilton
Highway system
Ontario municipal expressways
(in alphabetical order) ← Ottawa Road 174 Red Hill Valley Parkway

The Red Hill Valley Parkway (RHVP) is a municipal expressway in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario. The route connects the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway, Hamilton's second municipal expressway, to the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) near Hamilton Harbour. It is named after Red Hill Valley, through which it descends the Niagara Escarpment. It is a 7-kilometre (4.3 mi) four-lane freeway with a speed limit of 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph).

The C$245 million freeway was built through the Red Hill Valley by the City of Hamilton after a decades-long battle with opponents. The freeway was first proposed as the Red Creek Expressway in the 1950s and was cancelled and resurrected several times. Last-ditch efforts by opponents, including occupying the valley, lawsuits and blocking construction access, failed and the expressway was finally constructed in the 2000s, opening to traffic in 2007. The cost to the city included $100 million in construction costs, plus legal costs fighting to get the expressway constructed. The city fought the provincial government once and the federal government twice to build the project. As of November 2009, a $75 million lawsuit is still pending with the federal government.