Top stories of 2013: Major push from city council for second bridge
The year 2013, just like 2012, was plagued with talks of a need for a second bridge in Prince Albert.
Kicking the year off, relatively new Mayor Greg Dionne voiced his discontent with the results of a bridge study commissioned by the provincial government, the City of Prince Albert and surrounding RMs, which stated a second bridge is not required in the city for the next 25 years.
“As I said during my election campaign, is that it’s going to be a long campaign because there’s no favour, in my opinion, politically in this government to build this bridge,” said Dionne at a news conference Jan. 10.
The study done by Stantec said a second bridge would only be underutilized. By 2025 only between 600,000 and 1.5 million crossings would happen on an annual basis on the newer bridge while about 7 million would occur on the Diefenbaker Bridge, the report read.