Traffic on Highway 1 will be unaffected as repair of girder cracks are being completed from underneath the bridge structures, traffic on Saamis Drive and Box Springs Road will be. (Photo: Town of Redcliff)

By Jesse Gill, Brian Konrad

Repair work on Medicine Hat bridges expected to start on Thursday, traffic on Hwy 1 unaffected

Mar 27, 2024 | 10:44 AM

Work is anticipated to begin as early as Thursday on four bridges over the Trans-Canada Highway in Medicine Hat.

Two of them are over Box Springs Road, and the other two span Saamis Drive.

The two bridge over Saamis Drive will have repairs done underneath to cracked girders starting as early as Thursday and lasting until the middle of June. (Jesse Gill/CHAT News)

In all cases, work to repair cracked girders will be done from below, so no lane closures are required on Highway 1 itself.

However, there will be one lane traffic only and speed reductions to 50 kilometres per hour on Box Springs Road and Saamis Drive while the work is underway.

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The two bridge over Box Springs Road will have repairs done underneath to cracked girders starting as early as Thursday and lasting until the middle of June. (Jesse Gill/CHAT News)

The work is expected to continue until the middle of June.