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After years of construction and associated delays, the new Walterdale Bridge will give traffic the green light in September. That's according to Adam Laughlin, deputy city manager of integrated infrastructure, who was part of a hardhat-donning crew touring media around the site on Thursday morning. Though the City is hesitant to commit to a specific date, they say the latest estimate based on the contractors' schedule puts vehicles on the road by the end of summer. The multi-use path attached to the east side of the modern bridge would open a few months after the road enters service.
The replacement structure to the 1913-built steel grating-decked bridge spanning the North Saskatchewan River has been dogged by a series of delays. Construction began in June 2013 with an original targeted completion date set for the fall of 2015. A months-late delivery of the 42 steel beams fabricated in South Korea pushed the completion date back by a year, only to be delayed again because the remaining work needed to be done during warmer weather.
Despite the numerous headaches, the project has stuck to its $155-million budget. The contractor had been paying fines to the city amounting to $10,000 per day since June 2015, a penalty that jumped to $17,000 per day in November 2016.
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