BATTLEFORD - Town of Battleford Mayor Ames Leslie is calling on the province to improve the southbound bridge travelling from North Battleford to Battleford.
The structure is currently suffering from numerous potholes in the left lane.
"I think first we need to acknowledge the repaving of the piece leading up to the southbound bridge, coming out of North Battleford down Highway 16 and Highway 4, because that was a bad piece as well," Leslie said. "Hopefully, they paint some lines on it quickly here, so everybody knows what lanes they are. But that was the first step. And the second step, we're going to continue to advocate to have that bridge done."
The mayor said there are significant potholes on the bridge. He added with winter coming, the situation will only get worse.
"I am not sure if the plan is to get right across the bridge this year, but I know the long-term plan is to rehabilitate that bridge," Leslie said. "It just takes a little bit more time and a little bit of work to always shut down one lane of the bridge. But we're going to continue to have conversations with our local MLA and the Minister of Highways to make sure that gets addressed sooner than later."
The province said in an email that a Ministry of Highways contractor finished paving work on Highway 4 outside of North Battleford from the bottom of Humpty's hill, southbound to the Battlefords bridge on July 16.
The Ministry will continue to conduct regular maintenance activities on the Highway 4 Battleford bridge. There are no plans for repaving work on the bridge this season however.
