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BRIDGE TO NOWHERE: DROUIN PEDESTRIAN CROSSING PERMANENTLY CLOSED
Le passage piéton du pont du chemin Drouin est resté fermé depuis la reconstruction du pont en 2014. Bien qu’un montant non divulgué ait été mis de côté pour achever les approches de trottoir du passage, elles n’ont jamais été achevées, ne laissant qu’un chemin rocailleux et envahi par la végétation. Le passage piéton jamais utilisé a coûté à la ville environ 80 000 $ en 2014 et sera désormais définitivement fermé. - photo Joseph Coppolino.
JOSEPH COPPOLINO joseph.coppolino@eap.on.ca
In 2014, ahead of the municipal elec- tions, Clarence-Rockland carried out the reconstruction of the bridge south of Russell Road in the Village of Cheney. The 1920s- era single-lane wood-and-steel bridge was replaced with a two-lane steel-and-concrete structure after the bridge was closed for safety reasons in the spring of 2014. The Colautti Group, now a part of Tomlinson Group’s Greenbelt Construction subsidiary, was hired to install the prefabricated bridge at a cost of $1.2 million. According to the City’s report to council, the construction of the north-south bridge included the pedestrian crossing on the structure’s east side at a cost of approxi- mately $80,000. This did not include the price of installing sidewalk approaches to the bridge, for which “the council secured an additional amount,” according to the admi- nistration’s report. However, the approaches were never built, and the pedestrian crossing never opened to the public. The city said that the sidewalks leading to the bridge were never built for “unconfirmed reasons,” and the project was not pursued by the council led by late Mayor Guy Desjardin following the 2014 municipal elections. Status quo best course of action The city’s report explored three options
for the unused pedestrian crossing. The first option, which involves building the sidewalks up to the bridge, would cost the city $400,000 plus an additional $3500 annually for inspections and upkeep. The cost of taking down the crossing, option two, would cost “much higher than option one,” as it would require an in-depth study, demolition, transporting of materials to the landfill and work on the existing bridge. The administration is thus recommending a third option. The “Status Quo” option is to leave the pedestrian crossing as is and incur no additional cost to the city, with the only impact being “the optics associated with the fact that the bridge has an unconnected sidewalk.” Little use for pedestrians In determining the best course of action, the administration conducted a traffic study for the bridge. Despite not possessing the equipment required to count foot traffic (and claims they were unsuccessful in their attempts to call in a supplier to complete the count), the city determined the bridge is of little use for pedestrians “due to the low number of residences in the vicinity and the absence of other pedestrian infrastructure.” While the city acknowledges additional financial resources were secured for the
construction of the Drouin Road bridge sidewalk approaches, which would have cost $400,000 according to the city’s own estimation, officials did not confirm the total amount of funding allocated and where that funding went after the project was not com- pleted before this edition of the Vision went to print on Wednesday, October 11. &/#3&'r#3*&'4 LARGE GARBAGE PICK-UP Clarence-Rockland residents north of Baseline Road, including all addresses on Baseline Road should have large garbage items for pick-up at the curb no later than 7 a.m. for pick-up, Monday, October 16. Residents south of Baseline Road (Clarence Creek, Bourget, St- Pascal Baylon, Hammond, Cheney and Forest Hill) will have large item pick up the following Monday, October 23. The city is encouraging residents to start putting unwanted items at the curb this weekend, October 14, and give items a new home, reducing landfill waste. - Joseph Coppolino
2I[ &IKMRRMRK 'LYVGL City officials are recommending to council that the pedestrian crossing on the Drouin Road bridge in Cheney be permanently closed, despite costing the city $80,000 to build in 2014.
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