Heritage Bridge in Kitchener's Victoria Park closed again for more repairs
Work expected to take until end of this year
Heritage Bridge in Kitchener's Victoria Park is closed again for the next two months for more repairs.
The bridge, which is near Jubilee Drive and connects pedestrians to Roos Island, has fencing up to prevent people from using it.
A sign at the pedestrian bridge says the work is to recoat the bridge and to perform minor repairs to the existing steel.
The city told CBC News the existing coating will be removed and the bridge will be repainted. The work was suspended during the summer to allow the island to be open for programming.
The work is expected to take until the end of the year.
The bridge was closed last fall until this past spring for structural repairs.
Heritage Bridge was built in 1896, the same year Victoria Park opened. The website historicbridges.org, run by the Historic Bridge Foundation based in Austin, Texas and which is dedicated to preservation of historic bridges, says the design of the bridge in Victoria Park is "extremely unusual" and is "perhaps one of the simplest and shortest expressions possible of a cantilever truss bridge."