Work on Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge is moving forward on schedule and on budget, according to a new report released by the city.
City officials travelled to China in August to see how the steel is coming along.
The main focus now is on finishing all the fabrication in the Asian country.
The report released on Friday makes no mention of any issues with the work, unlike in the spring where a number of non-conformances had to be fixed.
Painting is set to start and the machinery fabrication is said to be “progressing steadily.”
Onsite work in Victoria is said to be progressing as well.
The city’s mayor said while the project is going well, there are still some hurdles it needs to overcome.
“It has to arrive from China, it has to go up and down. There’s a lot of tight, it’s a tight fit, but it’s good news and we will see a new bridge soon. We will never do an infrastructure project like this again,” Lisa Helps told CTV News.
The replacement bridge is scheduled to open to traffic in 2017, almost three years behind schedule.
The budget is over $105 million.
A new pedestrian walkway crossing over Esquimalt Road was installed in August.
