(Photo: Courtesy of Ritchie Boyd)
Construction of the new bridge over the Petitcodiac River linking Moncton and Riverview is on time and on budget so far according to officials with the New Brunswick Department of Transportation.
Modern Construction is the main contractor on-site which is actually the same company that helped build the causeway in the 1960s.
Department of Transportation assistant director of operations Michael Pauley says the work has been broken down into phases.
“We’ve started excavating the lower part where the new channel is going to enter under the new bridge – we call that Zone 5 and that’s almost complete. Right now they are moving on to Zone 6, which is the detour that drivers were using during the bridge construction and they are starting to excavate that.”