QEW Credit River Bridge work to start next month
A construction joint venture led by EllisDon and Coco Paving is on the cusp of starting work on a major project in Mississauga.
Plans to rehabilitate the Credit River Bridge along the QEW west of Toronto have been in the works for nearly 10 years. Shovels could be in the ground as soon as next month once stakeholder consultations on the latest design and construction report issued by the EDCO partnership is complete on November 19.
The 250-metre Credit River Bridge is 80 years old – as old as the QEW itself. Situated along one of the province’s busiest highway corridors, it is in need of major repair. The earliest scopes of work for the project that were prepared for the province in 2013 called for the bridge to be demolished. Public outcry helped to change the province’s mind in late 2019, and the bridge was spared the wrecking ball.
Last December, Infrastructure Ontario awarded a fixed-price contract of nearly $314 million to the EDCO group under a public-private partnership arrangement to perform much-needed improvements to the bridge, as well as a 2.6-kilometre stretch of road on either side of the bride from west of Hurontario Street to west of Mississauga Road.
The project scope includes
- building a new twin bridge north of the existing Credit River Bridge;
- rehabilitating the existing Credit River Bridge;
- widening and improving the QEW;
- replacing the Mississauga Road overpass;
- improving and reconfiguring the Mississauga Road interchange; and
- building active transportation crossings (and associated trail infrastructure) at the QEW and over the Credit River.
Infrastructure Ontario expects work on the project to be completed by mid-2025, with the majority of the project’s 150 required workers coming from the Greater Toronto Area.
Featured image: Traffic flow along the QEW Credit River Bridge in Mississauga. (EDCO)