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Residents of Westham Island attend TransLink townhall to discuss fate of bridge
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CityNews Vancouver
The residents of Delta’s Westham Island have always been a tightly knit bunch, but recently, they have been seeing even more of each other than normal.
On Tuesday, the residents were taken to a townhall, hosted by TransLink, so they could learn more about the transit authority’s plans to fix the critical 116-year-old piece of infrastructure.
“It will look like cranes on barges picking up a truss of the bridge, so it will lift that truss up and put it on a barge,” TransLink CEO Kevin Quinn said.
“115 years of people driving one vehicle at a time on a single lane swing bridge that’s been repaired a million times,” said Delta South MLA AIan Paton.
So while residents do have a timeline, there’s no estimate yet for how much these repairs are going to cost.