The city says it is on schedule in the three-week process to stabilize the 102nd Avenue Bridge, five days after four girders buckled during installation.

The city was forced on Monday to close Groat Road for the three weeks, leaving traffic gridlocked and commuters fuming.

"The large support crane needed to stabilize the girders is in place," Barry Belcourt, roads design and construction manager with the city, said in a news release. "Now we're conducting a precise review of all the engineering diagrams and comparing them with everything we know about the damaged girders, in order to figure out the safest way to attach the girders to the support crane."

Once the girders are attached to the crane, engineers and project contractors will inspect the bridge to determine how best to stabilize it so that traffic can start flowing below on Groat Road, he said.

"Once the girders are stable and Groat Road is open, we will assess the girders to determine whether they'll need to be repaired or replaced, which will tell us a lot about the status of the project," Belcourt said.