Who paves a private road or condo lane

Roadway construction is the third smallest of the nine categories on this site. As of 17 September 2026, asphalt paving has 181 companies, sealcoating 96, parking lot paving 92 and asphalt repair 87. Excavation and grading has 66, line marking 51, roadway construction 13, concrete curbs and sidewalks 10, and site drainage 7. A company can sit in more than one category, so the figures add up to more than the 376 listings.

The 13 roadway companies are spread across the region. In Toronto: The Crupi Group in Agincourt has 4.4 stars from 61 reviews. Miller Maintenance Ltd., also in Agincourt, has 4.0 from 18. Fermar Paving Limited in Islington-City Centre West has 3.1 from 35, and J. Di iorio Construction Ltd. there has 3.7 from 3. A company recorded simply as Roadway Construction, in Queen West, has 4.4 from 7.

Outside Toronto: Dufferin Construction Company in Oakville has 4.5 stars from 26 reviews. VBN Paving Limited in Richmond Hill has 3.4 from 20. RSR-Road Surface Recycling Limited in Ajax has 3.9 from 7. Wyndale Paving Co Ltd. in Brampton has 5.0 from 5. Airlines Pavement Markings in Burlington has 4.3 from 10. Via Pave Ltd in Stoney Creek has 4.4 from 81. Province Pavement Services in Mississauga has no rating, and Future Paving-Asphalt Parking Lot Paving Specialists has no area recorded. The full list is on the roadway construction page.

That spread matters when collecting bids. For a parking lot, a buyer can draw three bids from 92 companies in one category and 181 in another. For a private road, the pool is 13. The index does not verify the capacity, equipment, licence status or past work of any of them.

The largest road figure on this site is national. Statistics Canada's Core Public Infrastructure Survey was published in March 2023 using 2020 data. It puts new urban municipal road construction at an estimated $1.2 million per two-lane equivalent kilometre, and rural at $0.4 million. The figure is Canada-wide and not broken out for Ontario. The survey's values exclude land costs and overhead, and they describe public roads, not private lanes.

Below that sit two itemized Ontario estimates, and they differ enough that an average would hide the useful part. The Region of Peel's September 2022 estimate for Arterial A2 and Coleraine Drive in Brampton prices its asphalt wearing course (the top layer) at $82.50 per tonne. It prices road base (the stone layer under the asphalt) at $22 per tonne, and concrete curb and gutter at $71.50 per linear metre.

The City of Toronto's preliminary estimate, posted in December 2023, for the Broadview Avenue Extension lists an HL-1 surface layer over an HL-8 layer. It prices the HL-1 top layer at $183.60 per tonne and the HL-8 layer under it at $142.80. It also prices Granular A, a crushed-stone base material, at $34 per tonne, and concrete curb and gutter at $122.40 per linear metre.

Neither set of line prices is the full cost. The Peel estimate adds a 30% contingency to its totals, and the Toronto estimate adds 30% for contingency and 15% for engineering. Several of these line items also appear in the roadway construction cost guide.

A municipal road estimate prices a job that is tendered in public, designed to a published standard for public traffic. A condo lane carries garbage trucks, moving vans and residents' cars. The loads differ, the job is far smaller and the bidding is private. Whatever it costs to bring crews and equipment to site is spread over far less pavement.

The municipal numbers are best for checking the shape of a bid, not its total. If a bidder prices surface asphalt, road base or curb by the unit, the Peel and Toronto lines above give a public reference for each. A bid quoted as one lump sum cannot be checked against any of them.

A road job rarely stays inside one category. In this index, excavation and grading holds 66 companies, site drainage 7, concrete curbs and sidewalks 10, and line marking 51. Each trade is priced in its own units, and each is a place where two bids can quietly differ.

Excavation is one place the two estimates split widely. Peel prices earth excavation at $27.50 per cubic metre, while Toronto prices earthworks removal and disposal at $120. Removing old pavement shows a similar split: $6.60 per square metre in Peel's estimate for asphalt only, and $40.80 in Toronto's for asphalt and concrete road base together.

Drainage has its own lines. Toronto's estimate lists catch basins, the grated boxes that collect surface water, at $6,800 each. Peel's estimate lists supplying and placing a 600x600 mm catch basin at $900, a twin inlet basin at $1,900 and frames and grates at $150. It prices lead pipe, the short pipe from a catch basin to the storm sewer, at $60 to $75 per linear metre depending on diameter.

The detail is in the excavation and grading cost guide and the catch basin repair cost guide. The category pages for excavation and grading, site drainage and concrete curbs list the companies in each.

A private lane usually meets a public street, and that changes the paperwork. In Toronto, digging up or disturbing soil, pavement, curbs or sidewalks in the public right of way needs a City permit. The City's Landscape Construction Permit page lists the fee at $227.26, with no HST, plus any restoration costs. The public right of way is the City-owned strip along the street, including the boulevard and sidewalk.

Some municipalities also regulate grading on private land. Burlington's Site Alteration By-law 064-2014 regulates how land can be altered by filling, grading or excavation, so check with the municipality where the lane sits before any earth moves. Rules differ by city across the GTA.

In Toronto, a business that repaves residential or commercial driveways needs the City's Driveway Paving Contractor licence. The City's licence page lists $495.12 for application and licence together, $293.14 to renew, and $2,000,000 in commercial general liability insurance. Whether a condo lane counts as a driveway under that licence is a question for the City.

Where no private price list exists, an itemized bid does the checking a market price would do. Ask for asphalt and granular base by the tonne, and curb and gutter by the linear metre. Ask for excavation by the cubic metre, pavement removal by the square metre and drainage structures by the unit. Each line can then be read against the municipal figures above. A single total cannot.

Two more items belong in writing on every bid. Ontario's HST is 13%, and a quote that does not say whether HST is included cannot be compared with one that does. Where a firm's own website states its years in business or its insurance, the index keeps that as the firm's claim, but it verifies neither. It holds no warranty terms or completion history, so ask each contractor for those directly.

How this page was checked: the counts and ratings come from this site's own listing records. The Pavement Desk, the team that compiles the site's 376 listings and its municipal cost guides, checked every price against its linked source document on 17 September 2026. The site is free to use, and its About page says it earns nothing today; no company can pay for its position. A request sent through the quote form goes to one of the highest-scoring companies listed in the area. Corrections go through the contact page.