Highway 250 bridge reopens
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This article was published 14/08/2012 (4929 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The Highway 250 bridge reopened to traffic yesterday and local residents couldn’t be happier.
“We’ve been trucking barley from 12 noon on,” said Mel Hofer, the secretary-treasurer of Deerboine Colony Farms. “It’s just going beautifully. At least we can get our barley home now. We just started combining around Alexander. It’s wonderful that it’s open.”
A Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation spokesman said the work included replacing the timber deck of the bridge and replacing the pavement.
While the bridge was out of commission, area residents had to drive an extra 80 kilometres round trip to use the Highway 21 bridge at the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation if they had to cross the river.
“It would have been a major problem for us if the bridge wasn’t ready now,” Hofer said. “We probably would have just stockpiled the grain on the ground and picked it up when the bridge opened up because 80 kilometres round trip for a load of grain would have been too much. Even the neighbours and farmers and people that have to go into Brandon, they’re smiling now.”
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