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By Chris Brown

Finlay Bridge expected to reopen Friday

Jul 29, 2021 | 10:52 AM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – There’s good news today for those who have run into frequent and sometimes long delays trying to cross the South Saskatchewan River on either the Trans-Canada Highway or the Maple Avenue Bridge this month.

Finlay Bridge is expected to reopen tomorrow.

On June 23 the bridge was closed as work on the Brier Park Gravity Bypass project took place at the intersection at Second Street and Second Avenue NE. The work is expected to conclude by the end of day on Friday allowing the Finlay Bridge to reopen.

Reopening the bridge will lessen the load on the Maple Avenue bridge, which was heavily used by people going in and out of downtown. It will also give another option for motorists to avoid the highway where a street light installation project expected to go until October is causing delays.

The work to install a new sanitary sewer trunkline will move east to the next phase along Second Street between First Avenue and 1A Avenue

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The new line will divert sewage flow from the northwest quadrant of the city (Box Springs, Brier Park, Redcliff) to the newly renovated lift station on the north bank of the South Saskatchewan River near Police Point Park. Construction began with work in the Brier Park area on Saamis Drive NW in 2019 and continued through 2020 in the Parkview area near Altawana Drive NE.

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Work will also be done on the natural gas distribution system in the area in order to take advantage of synergies between the scope and location of the work by multiple city departments, says the city.

Full details on the project can be found on the city’s website.

Motorists are reminded to obey all traffic signs and detours related to ongoing construction.