City council awarded a tender for the replacement of the Edward Street Bridge on Monday. (Leith Dunick, tbnewswatch.com)
THUNDER BAY – City council has given the green light to a nearly $6.5 million replacement of the Edward Street Bridge, with work expected to begin in May and last into the fall.
Councillors voted unanimously Monday to award the tender for the project to local construction company LH North Ltd., which submitted the lowest bid for the project at $6,458,418.95 (corrected).
The bid from LH North came in over $400,000 below that of its closest competitor, with three companies submitting bids. LH North also beat the city’s pre-tender estimate of $7.1 million by well over half a million dollars.
A decision will be made at Thunder Bay city council Monday night whether or not to replace the Edward Street bridge. As Acadia Broadcasting first repo.
THUNDER BAY – Work to rebuild the Edward Street Bridge is set to begin in May, assuming the nearly $6.5 million contract recommended by city administration gets the green light from city council on Monday.
Workers from LH North Ltd., which submitted the lowest bid for the project, were on site taking measurements Thursday morning.
The bridge, which crosses the Neebing River between Parkway Drive and Riverview Drive, will be fully reconstructed, with the addition of a multi-use trail underneath the structure on the south side.
That work is expected to close the bridge for the length of construction season, said project engineer Mike Vogrig.
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Dec 11, 2020 6:09 PM
In spite of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Acadia Broadcasting’s 36 hours of Christmas Cheer campaign set a new bar for fundraising.
When 99.9 The Bay and Country 105 went off the air Friday night at 6:00 the total raised sat at over
$260,983 with the final number set to be determined in the next few days.
Christmas Cheer campaign chair Joleene Kemp is ecstatic about the generosity of Thunder Bay
“They have opened their hearts, they’ve opened their purse strings and have done things that probably under normal conditions wouldn’t be happening,” says Kemp. “When I went to the schools and the children presented big cheques, you filled up with tears because they were so excited that they could do something and they knew that if they didn’t do something it wouldn’t happen and they don’t want their friends to be left out this Christmas.”