No Quick Fix for Cameron Street Bridge
By 250 News
Tuesday, October 04, 2005 02:31 PM
Prince George City Hall now says the Cameron Street bridge wiill stay closed at least until the new year.
Engineers and City Staff are now itemizing bridge repair items, costs and a revised schedule to complete additional repair works for City Council’s consideration
Last week's annual inspection of the Cameron Street Bridge identified a serious wood rot problem. The bridge is now closed to all vehicular traffic.
Mayor Kinsley has already said he is waiting for the new Federal -Provincial rural area infrastructure funding agreement to be signed, with hopes of getting some of that funding to either repair the bridge, or begin construction of a new one.
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Building a new bridge with approaches immediately adjacent to the existing bridge always sounded like a poorly thought out idea to me. A bridge further to the east, close to the new Fraser river crossing, to allow traffic to bypass the downtown, seems like the no brainer.
When should it be built? Who knows without looking at the whole mix of "project" wants and needs fro the community, financing mixes and benefits returned to the community for the investment in infrastructure inprovement.
I have ever seen a cost benefit analysis of such projects weighted against each other, prepared by the city. Perhaps it exists and I have just managed to miss it.