The councillor for Winnipeg's Mynarski ward says the city isn't acting fast enough to replace the Arlington Bridge.
WATCH: The Arlington Bridge will have to be totally replaced, and not repaired like the city initially hoped – Nov 25, 2024The councillor for Winnipeg’s Mynarski ward says the city isn’t acting fast enough to replace the Arlington Bridge .
Coun. Ross Eadie told Global Winnipeg that the proposed replacement has a six-year timeline, but the city needs to jump on it sooner rather than later, due to the bridge’s importance as a transportation option for people from all over the city. Eadie said there are currently no funding agreements with either the feds or the province, but he hopes both levels of government will get involved.Story continues below advertisement
“This goes back, really, to municipal funding. If the city were to fund the Arlington Bridge replacement on our own, we would use up the rest of our debt capacity.Another major infrastructure initiative that will need to be tackled in the near future, Gillingham said, is the St. James Bridge — which takes considerably more traffic than the Arlington Bridge did when it was open, and is also a truck route and part of a big transit route.
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