By opening the bridge to ligth traffic we are prolonging the agony. Shut it down and realize that we need to use alternate routs to cross the Necheko. There are two four lane bridges to choose from lets use them. The heavy loads coming in from #16 east need to to use the Fraser bridge or Queensway. It is hard to imagine that traffic loves to sit and waite for the lights to change to get across the Necheko.
There are a number of other alternatives lets look at them instead of building another bridge. There are many other places ro spend tax dollers.

I think the bridge obviously needs to be replaced to take the dangerous heavy truck traffic off 5th Avenue in the short term and Peden Hill in the long term.

On the other hand opening the bridge as is now to small car and truck traffic makes sense to me for the next couple of years until an alternative is in place.

I don't get how come thier seems to be this feeling that the Cameron bridge kept all this scary heavy trafic off of fifth ave.Most heavy traffic went down fifth to avoid the hill on the north side of the river anyway also most of the dangerous goods come from the north side and travels the bypass.I say get rid of the hold ups on the bypass,move the south scales to a safer location and nearly every heavy load would gladly stay off fifth.Ever notice the smog from idleing motorist along the bypass well maybe the bigger issue here is flow of traffic.We have the road system in place its just that its not as convenient as some of the other routes trucks use to get around the conjestion.

We need an honest assesment of the traffic using this bridge. There has been to much B.S. in regards to the amount of traffic that actually use it. 8000 vehicles per day is nothing when it comes to moving traffic. When we talk of heavy truck traffic what are we talking about.

1. Super B Loads of lumber from Bear Lake to the Pas Lumber. 20 per day.??

2. Some log traffic from the North Nechako/Reid Lake/Hart Hiway to Lakeland Mills.

3. Tanker trucks with Gasoline and Diesel from Husky Refinery to River Road service stations, or to the Imperial Oil storage yard. 4or5 per day.

4. Trucks containing Hydrogen Peroxide from FMC going to 1ST avenue and then East. 2 per day?

5. Yellohead Road and Bridge trucks using 1st Avenue to go East to Mcbride etc. 5/5 per day?

6. Loaded chip/and hog fuel trucks from Brink Forest Products and The Pas Lumber and Lakeland Mills to the Pulp Mills and the empty return of same. 20 per day??

7. Some truck loads from the pulp mills destined to Edmonton or Calgary, 20 or 30 trucks per month.

All this truck traffic (which is not much) is presently using the John Hart bridge with little or no problem.

We are still waiting for the Engineers report on the status of this bridge. Can it be repaired without excessive cost and fuction at the level it was before they shut it down? If it can then that is the simple and most common sense solution to this so called **problem**.

If it cant be fixed to the previous level of use, then its use should be restricted to passenger vehicles only.

Whatever the outcome we certainly do not need another two lane bridge over the Nechako. This would give us 10 lanes over the Nechako in a radius of 6 kilometers.

Only people with absolutely no concept of what is required to move traffic, or vested interest groups, or politicians trying to get elected would suggest such a thing.

I would agree that maintaining the use of bridge is appropriate for cars, pickup trucks, bicycles and foot traffic.

It's a temporary measure that is in our budget. The larger vehicles will just have to go around until we can decide where to build and afford an alternative. Chester