St. Louis bridge hits another roadblock
The St. Louis bridge project has stalled again. Capital Steel, the Winnipeg company contracted to manufacture parts for the bridge, has been unable to deliver crucial steel girders to the construction site.
So far, Capital Steel has sent three trucks and trailers, each carrying one 160-foot-long girder on it. Two of them crashed in Manitoba.
“The first truck tipped near Dauphin when making a right on Feb. 4, then two trucks were sent on Feb. 11 and one of them tipped over north of Winnipeg,” said Kirstin Leatherdale, spokesperson for the Ministry of Highways.
“Obviously there was something with the configuration or something about the transport was not working and they needed to get that figured out,” she said.