Underground work on 18th Street complete
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This article was published 15/08/2024 (633 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Repairs to watermains and sewers beneath 18th Street have been completed and traffic along the road has been restored to normal, the City of Brandon said Wednesday.
The street was returned to normal either Tuesday or Wednesday morning, said Mark Allard, the city’s general manager of operations.
To facilitate that work, the city had closed off parts of lanes and intersections along 18th Street during the last couple of months.
“We had the underground (work) completed early in the week and then they were just removing some of their transitions for traffic, that type of stuff and a little bit of cleaning,” Allard said.
“There’s just some real minor things left to do, but for the most part all the pipe has been replaced and backfilled, lanes are open, so we consider it substantially complete at this point.”
Allard said the work was completed relatively smoothly, although the completion date was delayed slightly. While digging, he said some old service lines had been found and staff had to figure out which had to be tied into the new water lines.
That underground work had to be completed before Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure can rebuild 2.8 kilometres of 18th Street between Aberdeen and Rosser avenues. The province is in charge of repairing 18th Street as it is part of Highway 10.
Earlier this year, 18th Street was named by CAA Manitoba as the province’s worst road. It was named second-worst road last year. Richmond Avenue made this year’s list as Manitoba’s 10th-worst road.
Allard said the province has been notified by city staff that the work is complete. He said it is Brandon’s understanding that Zenith Paving will carry out the work after the company finishes working on streets managed by the city.
Infrastructure Minister Lisa Naylor previously committed to moving up the timeline on a planned upgrade to the street to this year, as long as the city’s work was done in time.
The province put the work out to tender last month, requesting that contractors bidding on the project complete it by Oct. 1.
Four bids were received for the province’s work on 18th Street, according to online tender website MERX.
Those bids were from Nelson River Construction based in Winnipeg ($4,696,398.50), Brandon’s Zenith Paving ($4,382,860.88), Winnipeg’s Maple Leaf Construction ($4,863,685) and Russell Redi-Mix Concrete ($5,012,305).
However, MERX does not show the contract as having been awarded.
A provincial spokesperson said details on its phase of the work will be announced in the coming weeks.
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