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EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY END OF 2013
Bridge will unite Block Line and Courtland
Bridge will unite Block Line and Courtland
by Helen HallKitchener Citizen
April 11, 2013
A railway bridge is the last hurdle to be completed to connect Block Line Road and Courtland Avenue.
It is expected to be finished in November 2013.
Currently, Block Line Road has been extended to Lennox Lewis Way, just east of St. Marys High School in Kitchener. The last portion to be completed includes seven railway tracks and Schneider Creek that will be covered by the bridge.
Kitchener project manager Muhammad Memon said they have completed the girders for the bridge. He said the project will cost $7-million when finished.
The bridge will include a bicycle path and pedestrian walkway. There will be a signalized intersection where Block Line meets Courtland.
Memon said that Courtland Avenue is a regional road. A light
rail station is planned for near where the two roads connect.
It is expected that the volume of traffic on Block Line will increase between Strasburg and Homer Watson when the connection to Courtland Avenue is complete.
To accommodate this, multi-use trails for cyclists and pedestrians will be built off- road on either side of Block Line between Strasburg and Homer Watson when the road is widened later this year.
The new paved multi-use trail will have one path for pedestrians and one for cyclists. Cyclists are to travel in the same direction as the cars nearest to them on the roadway. Signs will be posted with instructions.
This is the second off-road multi-use trail the city has constructed. Last fall, one was completed on Huron Road, between Fischer-Hallman and Strasburg.
The girders for the new bridge over the railway tracks between Block Line Road and Courtland Avenue have been constructed.