Province demands Port Mann Bridge be fixed
Posted December 20, 2012 4:21 pm.
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SURREY (NEWS1130) – The province is telling the contractor of the Port Mann Bridge to “fix it.”
The BC government wants a solution to the ice bombs that fell on cars yesterday as they drove across the new bridge.
Transportation Minister Mary Polak says she was horrified to hear ice was shattering windshields of cars that crossed the bridge. “This was an absolutely unacceptable situation.”
Polak says she is asking for a permanent fix, but also an immediate solution. “We expected through the contract that they would be able to deliver on a bridge that would not see these accumulations of ice and snow, and certainly would not see them falling into lanes of traffic.”
Polak says the fix should not come at the cost of taxpayers.
