Back in April 2009, the City said rehabilitating the bridge would need 12 days of full closure. Then it was “some” lane closures for an extra year, to minimize full closures. Then, this past June 14, the City’s engineers said rehab would require full closure for 12 months – a claim which has predictably scared some downtown businesses, and rallied them to favour replacement. [...]
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May 6th the Governance and Priorities Committee received an update from City of Victoria Assistant Director of Engineering Mike Lai on the technical progress to date, along with the public engagement/information process from Katie Josephson, Director of Communications. [...] In the early autumn of 2009 johnsonstreetbridge.ORG submitted a Freedom of Information request to the City of Victoria asking for all the correspondence between Delcan and the CoV up to July 2009. After some negotiation the City agreed the information was in the public interest, and provided a large box of paperwork – documents, emails, and notes – in November, just before the counter-petition process started. It makes interesting reading. [...]  Denise Savoie, Victoria NDP MP, has confirmation from Federal Minister John Baird that the allocated $21 million originally provided for bridge replacement can be used to offset costs for a bridge repair. [...] In the midst of the Blue Bridge counter-petition process, questions arise about information the City is distributing. Sam Williams, a Victoria writer, has dissected the latest ‘information’ sheet provided by the City of Victoria on the Blue Bridge replacement program. [...] Tomorrow at 5:00 pm, Victoria’s city council will vote to pursue one of three possible designs for a new Johnson Street Bridge. Which criteria will weigh most heavily as the councillors make the city’s most important aesthetic decision in years is anyone’s guess. Will they vote for the winner of the online survey? Will they be swayed by emailed comments or letters to the editor? Will they have conducted any research of their own, or will they be governed by personal taste and gut instinct? [...] The City of Victoria presented three designs to replace the Johnson Street Bridge at a special meeting of the Governance and Priorities Committee, held at the Victoria Conference Centre. The video below is a precis of the over one hour presentation – and shows the opening by Mayor Dean Fortin, introduction of key people from the City and outside contractors supervising the replacement project, the presentation of the three designs by Wilkinson Eyre Architects (via video feed from London UK), and a presentation by Katie Josephson (City of Victoria Communications Director) on the two week public consultation process. [...] Johnson Street Bridge – Letter to Mayor Dean Fortin and City Council -Questions and concerns on the planned replacement of the Blue Bridge [...] Bad reason, 3Bad news, there’s another really bad reason… “The new bridge will be so much nicer.” I suppose it depends on one’s vision of “nice,” but now that the City has spent $3.2million to hire a firm, MMM Group Ltd., to oversee construction of a new bridge – and now that inquiring minds have had an [...] |
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