Cameron Street Bridge Design Consultation

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 03:58 AM

Prince George, B.C. - The Cameron Street Bridge design and the roundabout set for the north end of the crossing will be the focus of design consultation session this week.

The overall design of the bridge Several stakeholder sessions will be held on the 22nd, (Thursday) in the Council Chambers at Prince George City Hall.

Industrial /commercial Users are set to talk with the design group from 2:20-4:00, then adjacent residential property owners will are set for 4:30 to 6:00 and the Community is welcome to attend an open house from 6:30 to 8:00.

Representatives from the design consultants and the City of Prince Geoge will be on hand to deliver a short presentation at the beginning of each session and to respond to any questions.

The final design for the bridge is expected within days.

Mayor Colin Kinsley has delivered some positive news about the bridge. Council recently approved spending an extra $250 thousand dollars on the Cameron Street Bridge to widen the planned lane for pedestrians/ bikes and continue the connection to the trail system. Mayor Kinsley told Council he spoke recently with Provincial Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon who advised there was funding available for that kind of project, and Minister Falcon would support the application for funding to cover the lane widening costs. The City has since applied for the funding.

The Cameron Street Bridge has been closed to traffic since the fall of 2005. Full funding for the replacement has yet to be secured, but the Federal and Provincial Goverments have contributed a total of $2 million towards the $9 million plus price tag.

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Posted by: heidi1555 on November 20 2007 7:49 AM

A roundabout in the icy north???

Posted by: vocer on November 20 2007 8:09 AM

They actually work quite well. There all over Europe and keep traffic moving. My only concern is large trucks with trailers and the chance of them crossing into the path of another vehicle. Hope its big enough to accomodate or are tractor trailers going to be even allowed on this roundabout

Posted by: Longnecks1 on November 20 2007 8:10 AM

Haven't they spent 2 million in studys yet.

Posted by: northman on November 20 2007 8:26 AM

A round about? The drunk divers cant even drive straight roads so this should be really interesting. There is actually a round about in dawson creek and it seems to do the job from what i can tell but then again ive never drove a fully loaded transport or logging truck.

Posted by: Harbinger on November 20 2007 11:26 AM

Roundabout kinda like the ice oval? I watched Clark Griswold drive in a roundabout in the movie "European Vacation" Looking forward to it being built. Hope it will have good drainage. (ice rink)

Posted by: heidi1555 on November 20 2007 11:43 AM

I can see it's fine for a place like the casino but a bridge and highway?? Don't you just love Clark Harbinger? lol..poor man! The roads are scary enough in the winter with what little S turns and what not we already have. The large trucks have a hard enough time turning onto fifth avenue without knocking down a pole or two.

Posted by: seamutt on November 20 2007 2:58 PM

Roundabouts are great, have driven them in Europe and Australia, but not with big truck traffic. Our trucks are generally bigger so don't really know how well it will work in that situation. Might be quite entertaining!

Posted by: Foo738 on November 21 2007 7:37 AM

Entertaining? How light can you be? How about added pollution and noise in an already over-congested industrial area which adjoins residential areas?