{"id":12689,"date":"2019-10-28T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12689"},"modified":"2019-10-28T14:00:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:00:55","slug":"community-consulted-on-oakfield-park-bridge-replacement-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12689","title":{"rendered":"Community consulted on Oakfield Park bridge replacement project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OAKFIELD: <\/strong>The community of Oakfield had it\u2019s first look at plans from Nova Scotia\u2019s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure and Renewal (NSTIR) to replace the Oakfield Park bridge, beginning in a year-and-a-half\u2019s time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At\n the community consultation on Oct. 22 at St. Margaret\u2019s Church in \nOakfield, residents saw the plans that were placed in a couple of spots \nin the church and plans that were laid out on a table at the back of the\n church for the new bridge, which will cost approximately $2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current bridge is a single-lane, 31 metre span built with steel truss which crosses over a CN Rail line. The new bridge structure will be two lane, single span (25 metre) of poured concrete grinders, with a steel reinforced deck bridge and sidewalk that will have a steel bridge railing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Residents get a look at the design of the Oakfield Park Road bridge, which is set for replacement beginning in spring\/summer 2021, and take six to nine month to complete. The current bridge will remain open until the new one is ready. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While residents welcome the bridge being replaced, with \nmany saying it\u2019s long overdue, a few voiced concerns with the new design\n opening a can of worms to non-stop speeding, which is a current issue \ndespite the one lane bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s ugly; it needs to be steel and not concrete,\u201d said a long-time resident who wished her name not be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woman feared with a concrete bridge that something similar to what happened at a bridge in Montreal that was newly built and made of concrete would happen to the Oakfield Park bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to \ninformation in a handout of the bridge replacement project, a portion of\n Meadowvale Lane will see a change in vertical alignment to connect with\n Oakfield Park Road. The new bridge will be constructed on a new \nalignment north of the existing structure running skew to the rail line.\n A portion of the current road will be eliminated on either side and \nlikely access blocked once the new bridge is complete and in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe\n existing road and bridge will remain open throughout construction,\u201d \nsaid NS TIR representative Matt Clarke, who was among three TIR \nofficials on-0hand to answer questions. \u201cThe old bridge will only be \nremoved upon completion of the new structure and traffic can be moved \nonto the new bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said TIR is currently working with CN to acquire the necessary permits to complete the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere will be a few utility poles that will require they be moved as well in order to finish the construction,\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A resident gets a look at the design of the Oakfield Park Road bridge, which is set for replacement beginning in spring\/summer 2021, and take six to nine month to complete. The current bridge will remain open until the new one is ready. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Clarke\n said the detailed design of the bridge is complete. Once work begins in\n the spring\/summer of 2021, it\u2019s expected to take between six to nine \nmonths to complete the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That would make for a late 2021, early 2022 opening of the new Oakfield Park bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OAKFIELD: The community of Oakfield had it\u2019s first look at plans from Nova Scotia\u2019s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure and Renewal (NSTIR) to replace the Oakfield Park bridge, beginning in a year-and-a-half\u2019s time. At the community consultation on Oct. 22 at St. Margaret\u2019s Church in Oakfield, residents saw the plans that were placed in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[802,33,610,831],"class_list":["post-12689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured","tag-bridge-replacement","tag-oakfield","tag-oakfield-park","tag-tir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}