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MTO unwilling to grant
extension for bridge repairs
Galen Simmons
Mitchell Advocate
It seems the province is
unwilling to address the
Municipality of West Perth's
concerns with the milestone
time frames set out in the
Connecting Links funding
agreement for repairs to
Mitchell's Blanshard Street
bridge.
At council's April 18 meet-
ing, West Perth operations
manager Mike Kraemer
explained to councillors the
Ministry of Transportation
(MTO) had included a Dec.
31 deadline for bridge
repairs to be substantially
complete in the funding
agreement without fully
understanding the amount
of work needed before the
16 -week repair project can
actually get started.
Yet even after trying his
best to explain to his MTO
contact that the municipality
has not yet started the tender
process - and that it would
take five to six weeks to
obtain a permit from the
Goderich-Exeter Railway in
order for the repairs to pro-
ceed - Kraemer had to
inform councillors at their
April 25 meeting the MTO
was unwilling to budge on
that deadline or any of the
other milestone deadlines
that need to be reached in
order to receive each fund-
ing instalment.
"As of last week, I was
pretty much confident that
we were not going to be
able to proceed with this
grant and we were going to
lose it because of the mile-
stones," Kraemer said.
"However, after talking with
and convincing BM Ross
(and Associates Ltd.) to
make some concessions on
our behalf, we are probably
90 per cent positive that
this project will go ahead
now and we will receive the
grant funding."
In order to receive the full
$992,821 in Connecting
Links funding, Kraemer told
councillors the municipality
will have to meet three major
milestones.
Under the first milestone,
50 per cent of the total fund-
ing will be presented to West
Perth once MTO receives
and a accepts report from
p
council on which contractor
was awarded the project. The
agreement stipulates that
this report must be submit-
ted within 15 business days
of council's resolution to hire
its chosen contractor and
that the report cannot be
received by the ministry any
later than June 30, 2016.
In order for the ministry to
receive the contract award
report by June 30, Kraemer
said tenders for the bridge
repairs will have to be sent
out to contractors by June 3,
with all bids submitted by
June 22. Councillors will
then choose a contractor at
their June 27 meeting, after
which staff will draft the
report and send it to the
ministry on June 28.
"What we are concerned
about is the number of con-
tractors and vendors out
their that will be able to per-
form the bridge work this
year. A lot of them already
have their work schedules
full. However, you can never
tell until you get the contract
out there," he said.
To draft a request for pro-
posals by June 3, Kraemer
has convinced the munici-
pality's engineers at BM Ross
to delay work on the Line 42
bridge scheduled for this
year until 2017, and to have a
staff member work on week-
ends to meet the tight
deadline.
In the meantime, Kraemer
said he will have to person-
ally work with the Goderich-
Exeter Railway to obtain the
necessary permit for the
bridge repairs to be com-
pleted while still allowing
rail traffic to move through
the construction zone. This
permit process usually
requires between five and six
weeks of review, so in order
to potentially speed up the
process Kraemer said he
might have to make a trip to
Montreal to meet with repre-
sentatives of the railway in
person.
"What they want to know
is the height distance and
the restrictions, because
they're still going to allow
trains to go through. We'll
have to put up a work plat-
form with the safety netting
also. Their main require-
ment, though - and they're
willing to provide it to us at
no cost - is a 24-hour flag-
man. So whenever we're on
site they can be on site just to
ensure that none of the
workers are down on the
tracks or if any of the debris
falls on the tracks or any-
thing like that - I think that's
the biggest hurdle right
now," he explained.
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