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#41 Mike K.

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Posted 23 March 2017 - 09:02 AM

What's interesting is the province stepped up here. Not a penny was put towards the new JSB.

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#42 Bingo

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Posted 23 March 2017 - 09:36 PM

Most likely improving pedestrian and pike passage over this bridge. 

 

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#43 lanforod

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Posted 02 March 2018 - 08:37 PM

The traffic gongshow getting over this bridge continues. The city really needs to look at the lights in this area and rework them.



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Posted 21 August 2018 - 07:40 AM

The work will be put out to tender this fall and could get underway early in the new year, said Brad Dellebuur, Victoria’s assistant director of transportation. The city has about $2.4 million in government funding to rehabilitate the bridge, with the final cost likely to end up higher.

The job will take four or five months to complete.

Several things are on the repair list.

“There’s some expansion joints that need to be tended to, they’re doing some work on the deck itself,” Dellebuur said. “And then the bulk of it is looking after the steel structure, so scraping it down, taking the paint off and then repainting it, repainting the railings, repainting all the streetlights on there, and just making sure everything’s up to snuff.”

No improvements for walking or cycling are likely in the immediate future.

“There is a long-term plan to hang a new sidewalk off the north side of the bridge and then widen out the road deck to put bike facilities on there,” Dellebuur said.

That work is not part of the five-year schedule for Victoria’s Bicycle Master Plan since it wasn’t deemed a priority corridor at this point.

The future work has been previously estimated at $15 million.

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#45 Jason-L

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Posted 21 August 2018 - 09:05 AM

Necessary, but gosh is that going to mess up the traffic flow something fierce.



#46 DustMagnet

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Posted 21 August 2018 - 10:34 AM

Necessary, but gosh is that going to mess up the traffic flow something fierce.

The same was said about the Craigflower Bridge, which was closed for a year.  And it did.

 

But now I don't even remember it, and I was travelling through that area every weekday at the time.



#47 thundergun

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Posted 22 August 2018 - 08:25 AM

Glad to hear there are pedestrian and cycling improvements proposed. The sidewalk on that bridge seems very unsafe without a barrier from cars, especially as it is used by people going both ways on the bridge. Some work done here would really set things up for more (building on Moon, Saltchuck, Parachute, breweries, etc.) revitalization on the east side of the bridge. Add that to the rock bay pedestrian bridge they're proposing as part of the harbour walkway and you could have a nice circle route from downtown and the goose.



#48 Nparker

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Posted 22 August 2018 - 08:41 AM

...Add that to the rock bay pedestrian bridge they're proposing as part of the harbour walkway and you could have a nice circle route from downtown and the goose.

Targeted completion date: June 30, 2065.


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#49 DustMagnet

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Posted 06 February 2019 - 11:39 AM

Point Ellice Bridge to be closed in one direction during repaving and repairs

 

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“It’s going to be exactly the same from the public’s perspective,” he said. “It might be a slightly different colour, but it’s going to be exactly the same bridge.”

 

 

It's like getting a new roof on your house.


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#50 Linear Thinker

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Posted 07 February 2019 - 12:45 PM

$2.4M,

~28,000 ft2, from VicMap

$86/ft2 ish

 

Point Ellice Bridge to be closed in one direction during repaving and repairs

 

https://www.timescol...airs-1.23624667

 

 

It's like getting a new roof on your house.



#51 RFS

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Posted 07 February 2019 - 12:50 PM

but will it have blue lighting???



#52 grantpalin

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Posted 08 July 2019 - 04:41 PM

Was passing by on a harbor ferry and caught this perspective of the bridgework underway. Interesting location for that graffiti.

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#53 Mike K.

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Posted 08 July 2019 - 07:04 PM

That’s a great shot, Grant!

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#54 laconic

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Posted 21 September 2019 - 08:12 AM

The under-scaffolding has been removed from the center section of the bridge.


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#55 Mike K.

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Posted 22 September 2019 - 07:24 AM

Gary, can we get a shot of this when you have the time?

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#56 laconic

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Posted 22 September 2019 - 07:31 AM

There are times when I secretly covet Gary's camera equipment.

 

The workers have been removing the scaffolding and stacking it on the bridge deck for removal.

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#57 Linear Thinker

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Posted 02 October 2019 - 08:36 PM

The south 1/2 of the bridge was paved today.



#58 Midnightly

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Posted 02 October 2019 - 10:39 PM

The south 1/2 of the bridge was paved today.

 

 

i'm looking forward for it to finally being open again will cut the commute down in half coming home from the kid's class



#59 Linear Thinker

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Posted 03 October 2019 - 08:47 AM

This wont help.

"Full road closure of Gorge Rd W at Albina (east of Tillicum) with westbound traffic closed at Harriet October 6-11."

 

i'm looking forward for it to finally being open again will cut the commute down in half coming home from the kid's class



#60 todd

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Posted 03 October 2019 - 10:49 AM

Bridge collapse in Taiwan a couple days ago: https://youtu.be/WOag4uTlGss

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