How can we accept poor weather as a delay, the other bridge in town seems to be on schedule. it would appear as though the project management should be to blame. Is this the same group building the new Sandman Hotel?

The FED's need all the money to buy more Arms for Afghanistan, so PG will have to wait until they print more.

"The delay is the result of a slower than expected funding agreement with the Federal Government and poor weather"
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I'm sorry, but funding and weather are not the things that are supposed to be doing the work that there is a contract for.

Funny how the excuses start flying when people can't do the job they were hired for.

Someone should set up a video camera at the roundabout after it's built and watch the hilarity ensue. A lot of it could be youtube-worthy.

This goofy Cameron St. Bridge ;project has been ongoing since 2005, and we still do not have a bridge. For those that can remember that far back, we could have repaired the bridge for $750,000.00 and would have had it back in service by the s;pring of 2006 at the latest. Instead we choose to build a new hybride bridge for a cost of $12.9 million dollars and I suspect that the cost will escalate to $15 Million before the ;project is finished.

There is absolutly nothing that has happened since 2005 that would indicate that there will be increased traffic on this bridge. In fact the opposite is true and we will probably end up with less traffic. In addition we have wasted millions of dollars in gas and diesel costs by rerouting the 8000 vehicles per day to Carney St., and 5th Ave for the past 3 years plus all the attendent pollution, and congestion.

Rumour has it that the cement piers along with the steel beams make this new bridge to high and that the cement beams will have to be reduced by three feet. If this is true then there will be a lot of jackhammering going on and a lot of additional costs. I suspect we will not see this project completed until the spring of 2009.

Thank God there is an election soon.

The cement beams will have to be reduced by three feet? It'll be fun driving over that thing I bet. Nice and bouncy.

Manager of General Operations for the City, Bob Radloff says - 'The Cameron Street bridge will be open for traffic by the end of this year.'

That was only a month ago.

How can such a senior City Manager be so far off in his understanding of this important project? What other important City projects are so poorly understood?

Moses...Answer to your question on projects poorly understood....LOTS . IE... Ice jam, River road, Warm water fiasco, Downtown Bio energy system, Horizon Air subsidy, etc. etc. etc.

Looks like some of the cities "fiasco's" all include the same contractor.

Common Sense, The two contractors do get a lot of city projects? I wonder why.

Is this Opinion 250, or the downtown rumour mill? Does anybody actually read the stories and the subsequent comments before retorting blindly?
You guys could heat a good sized village with your hot air. I mean that in a nice way; hot air heat for a village would be eco friendly, probably get carbon tax credits too.
metalman.
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'Does anybody actually read the stories and the subsequent comments before retorting blindly?'

What are you talking about MetalDude?

O-250's article of August 13th quoted the Manager of General Operations of the City as saying the Cameron Street Bridge WILL open before the end of this year. The headline even carried the emphasis.

Mr. R went further to say 'If we get ideal conditions we’ll do better than that date, if there’s adverse conditions, we don’t know for sure what effect that might have, but it might take them to December 31st to complete.'

That wasn't a political statement (from Mr. K) but an informed judgement by the senior engineer at the City.

My question was simply this - if they can be so wrong about something as simple as evaluating a contractor's construction schedule, what else are they mucking up?

More importantly, what are they mucking up but feeding the public bull**it to conceal?

Actually, my comment/question was intended to address the suggestions from others, Moses, not yours. Talk of collusion, or perhaps favouritism, between the city and IDL & WIC. I also take issue with the comments regarding misalignment of concrete "beams" Where does that information appear in the story above? The comments come off sounding like the writers are uninformed.
metalman.

I think it rather unfair to comment on the lack of substantial progress on the Cameron Bridge project, since the City in it's all knowing wisdom wanted a low bidder, not a bridge builder.

Good one, rodangus just like hiring glazier to pave roads.

Metalman. I agree that the information did not appear in the story above, and that is part of the problem. The City and others like to release information to the new media that covers their situation, they do not release information that would be detrimental to them.

So the question is, how do we get good information? Some of the information released in regards to the hot water ;pipeline into the Nechako and what actual effect the Quebec ice breaker has on the flood conditions was pretty far from being factual.

Do you actually beleive that the delay to the Camerson St., Bride is due to weather and the Federal Government? When the new bridge was first announced there was no mention of the Federal Government kicking in any money, and they probably wouldnt have kicked in a million if it were not for the upcoming election.

It seems that there is a problem with the cement piers. Ie; Once the saddles are put on the cement piers, plus the steel beams, the structure is too high, so the cement piers have to be reduced in height. This information is hearsay and therefore might not be factual, however we will soon find out as the project continues.

In any event the actual delay is three years and climbing since the bridge was closed, and to me it was obvious from the start that they should have repaired the old one.

Why do we need three bridges across the Nechako to service 20,000 people? The answer very simply is poor planning.

A repaired one way bridge with a lighting system would have been more than sufficient to handle this traffic

This was the hot issue of the LAST election, and it's still not done. Shameful.