Kingsway Avenue is a truck route and the majority of
Kingsway has been reconstructed in the last few years
in order to handle heavy truck traffic. The same
thing does not apply to Pitt River Road. lf the
money were to be spent in replacing the Pitt River
Road bridge instead of the Kingsway Bridge, we would
either have to upgrade Pitt River Road +o handie
trucks or we would continue to keep truck traffic on
the Kingsway Bridge with its very poor geometrics for

trucks,

The requirements of
the road may not be restricted
vehicie. If we were to tr

The long range plan for the City calls for the Como
Lake extension to be constructed in place of the Pitt
River Road connection to the Lougheed Highway. This
is the plan which is preferable from many points of
view and is supported by the Department of Highways.
We are not certain that this. option wit] go through
because of difficutties with the neighbouring
municipality, However, we can be reasonably certain
that the Department of Highways will not finance both
the Pitt River Road Bridge and the Como Lake

extension.

Constructing the Kingsway Bridge now would not
preclude choosing either Pitt River Road or Como Lake
Road Bridges in the future. However, constructing a
Pitt River Road Bridge now would preclude the use of

Como Lake Road jn the future.

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