With all the layoffs from the mills in the BCR site it's probably not needed now. But it will be a big improvement, too bad they couldn't four lane the highway to the new scale as well. It's no fun getting stuck behind someone that likes to do 80 in the 100k zone from Stone Creek to the north side of the Simon Fraser bridge.

Ok, you obviously dont travel much in the BCR. Its very strongly needed and there is going to be a ton of 4 lane between the bridge and stone creek.

Congratulations! A project well done, on time and on budget! And the Feds will pick up half of the total cost!

I am glad to see the completion of this much needed bridge. Now we have to jack up the old bridge to match the new one.
metalman.

Wiley says "and there is going to be a ton of 4 lane between the bridge and stone creek"

Tell me where. All I can see is from the train crossing near Stone Creek to Red Rock. There is a heck of a lot highway between Red Rock and Sintich Rd. So if you think that's a ton, your sadley mistaken.

Diplomat. Where does the article say the bridge was on budget???? It says the construction bid came in at $31,607,061.00. Hopefully it was on budget, but who knows.,

The numbers used to justify various projects are always interesting. In this case 22000 vehicles per day use the bridge. Then we would have approx 15000, to 20,000 who use the John Hart Bridge, then we have 8000 that use the Cameron St., Bridge, and of course we have 10,000 that use the Foothills Bridge, and oh yes we have about 15000 that use the Yellowhead Bridge.

Let me see now, hmmmmm approx 70,000 vehicles using the various bridges on a gived day. Of course the people in the bowl area, and College Heights West, dont use a bridge at all, so this means that two thirds of the population approx 48000 people use the bridges 70,000 times per day. Of course of the 48000 only one third actually drives so we have 16000 people using the bridges 70,000 times per day.

Arent numbers wonderful???

perhaps a better way to say it is that the bridge is crossed an average of 22,000 times per day. Of course some vehicles cross it more than once a day. Good to see the bridge come to completion, and glad they used local labor to build it. Puts $ in our town at a time when we really need it.

Palopu .. numbers are wonderful if one knows what they mean and how to use them.

22,000 vehicles do not use the Fraser River bridge. There are 22,000 vehicle movements over the bridge per day. There is quite a difference between the two.

You could set up a few cameras that can read license numbers and you might be able to get a good approximation of how many vehicles use the bridge and how many times each vehicle crosses the bridge per day, the time and the direction travelled.

Then you say that people in the bowl and CH West do not use a bridge at all. What the H is that supposed to mean. Where do hose who work in the BCR supposedly live?

No one in CH or the bowl work in the BCR?

I would not be surprised if some who work in the BCR area drive to work, the drive back accross the bridge for lunch, back again after lunch and then home at the end of work.

Then others might have a few meetings in other parts of the city during the day and cross even more frequently. Then there are delivery drivers, etc, etc.

Then we have the through traffic using 97 and 16.

Time to retake that traffic engineerng course.

But we will need this 4 lane when the exodus of new grads takes place every july.