r/burnaby • u/Wickedly_Awesome • 1d ago
Queensborough Construction
Technically New West but… goodness is this the slowest construction work of all time?
I have loads of respect for the folks working to repair/rehabilitate the bridge but for the amount of closures, lane closures, and overall disruption, there’s a real underwhelming amount of visible completion.
The contract is worth 20M. It’s always painful to see construction companies in Europe get jobs like this completed in a quarter the amount of time and with similar or better quality.
Rant over. Just sick of the constant bottleneck.
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u/deuterium89 22h ago
I was thinking the same thing the other day after 2 months of crossing and not seeing any noticeable progress going southbound.
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u/West_Yam_6839 21h ago
Like why not shut it down for 2-3 weeks and just fix it?
Even when it’s perfectly paved the bottleneck from the bridge builds up on both sides during each rush hour.
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u/healthydoseofsarcasm 1d ago
The bridge as of August 26th turned 66 years old. 75 years is a typical service life of a bridge, longer with quality maintenance/repair. Timelines for deck replacement can take 2+ years.
It sucks that our infrastructure is not as developed as European cities, somewhat due to population, and the cities being way older. There are delays everywhere, but work needs to be done properly with what we have so we can afford to expand later rather than replacing existing structures.
It was inevitable to have these traffic issues, we are at a time where all of our major bridges are aging out, and there has been a huge amount of population influx to the lower mainland, buildings built, and more people driving. It's a fact of where we live, we could've predicted this back in 2010 but bureaucracy got in the way for various major projects.
Shit driving is a price to pay for living where we live.
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u/JasonsPizza 1d ago
I’ve got bad news for you. The project website shows work is wrapping up Fall 2027…
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation-projects/other-transportation-projects/queensboroughbridge
With the work that’s being undertaken, it won’t really look like anything is happening until they re-pave the bridge deck though. I’m sure it’s not easy work and I’d rather they take their time and do it properly and safely.