Curb cut cost for a wider driveway in Fredericton?

Widening a Driveway in Fredericton: Curb Cut Cost and What to Expect

The City of Fredericton charges $125 per metre of curb cut, plus tax, with a minimum of 2 metres. Ask the City whether your project also needs a building permit; its Engineering Division reviews water and sewer services and lot grading at the permit stage.

The excavation side of widening a driveway, meaning removing the old edge, cutting back the base and shaping the new apron, is priced on machine time. A mini excavator with operator runs $65 to $150 per hour; a standard machine runs $150 to $250 per hour. Published price guides read in September 2026 put driveway excavation and base work in the $1,500 to $5,000 range, though few New Brunswick prices are published and machine hours plus trucking and material are the clearest way to read a quote. Granular A base material runs $35 to $55 per cubic metre, and delivery adds $75 to $200 per load.

A few things to sort out before the machine arrives. Info-Excavation, reached through Click Before You Dig, needs 3 working days' notice; that locate is valid until the end date written on the request. NB Power runs its own separate underground locate service and asks for at least five business days' notice; that locate is valid for 60 days from the date on the form and covers only NB Power-owned lines. Private lines run to a garage, shed or any structure the owner or a past owner installed are yours to find and mark before digging starts. If the driveway sits within 30 metres of a watercourse or wetland, measured horizontally from the top of the bank, a provincial Watercourse and Wetland Alteration permit is required before any ground disturbance.

Before hiring, ask the contractor for a WorkSafeNB clearance certificate confirming their account is in good standing. Under the Construction Remedies Act, you must retain 10% of the contract price as a holdback for 60 days after the certificate of substantial performance is signed.

Lay the bids next to each other and check whether each one spells out how rock is priced if the machine hits it, where the spoil and old base material gets trucked, who supplies and places the new granular base, and what clean-up and surface restoration is included before the job is called done.