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TWO HAWKESBURY BRIDGES TO BE REPLACED
ALEXIA MARSILLO alexia.marsillo@eap.on.ca
The CNR/Hawkesbury Creek Overhead Bridge and the Highway 34 Overpass on County Road 17 will both be demolished and replaced with new bridges next year. After assessing the condition of both bridges, it was determined to be more cost effective to replace both bridges entirely than to continue to rehabilitate them regularly. The Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) has retained Jacobs and Dillon Consulting to complete the design for the replacement of these two bridges. A presentation of the project was given to Hawkesbury municipal council during its regular meeting on Febru- ary 11. The project will include the demolition and replacement of both bridges using an accelerated bridge construction method. The ramps at the County Road 17 and Highway 34 interchange will be reconfigured. The project is still currently in the design stage and will soon enter a 30-day public review period, in which the details of the project will be posted online in order to receive feedback from the people of Hawkesbury and to answer any questions or concerns they may have. “The Ministry of Transportation explained to us that the preliminary work will be done at the end of 2019 and the construction work is planned for 2020,” said Guillaume
Le pont enjambant la voie du CN/Hawkesbury Creek et la passerelle de la route 34, sur la route de comté 17, seront tous deux démolis et remplacés par de nouveaux ponts. Les travaux sont prévus pour 2020 mais on n’a pas de date précise encore. —photo fournie
Boudrias, Project Manager for the Town of Hawkesbury. “But we don’t have a precise date.” Once construction does begin, County Road 17 will be closed completely, in the vicinity of the bridge, for two to four weeks and Highway 34 will be closed, in the vicinity of the bridge, for two to three weekends. County Road 17 will be detoured along County Road 4 heading east-west through Hawkesbury’s Main Street and heading north- south along Tupper Street. This is estimated to cause a nine-minute delay for commuters.
Highway 34 traffic will be detoured via a temporarily constructed north-south bypass through the interchange. “There are certainly concerns,” said Boudrias. “There will be an increase in traffic during the two- to four- week closure period, but there are measures to mitigate its problems that are being implemented by the Town and the MTO. But, it will certainly create extra circulation.” In terms of the financing for these two bridge replacements, the Town of Hawkes- bury will not be spending any money.
“Municipalities are not involved (in the financ- ing of the project),” explained Boudrias. It’s the MTO, but I don’t know what the source of funding is on MTO’s part.” Both bridges were built in 1955 and have undergone multiple rehabilitations since then, the latest one occurring in 2008. Both bridges were assessed to currently be “in fair condition overall, with localized areas of poor condition” according to the report. Common issues include cracks, cor- rosion, scaling and spalling.
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