The Provincial Government has announced funding to help with the construction of a new Port Bruce Bridge. Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Jeff Yurek announced today that the Ontario Government will be putting $1,666,499.73 towards the Port Bruce Bridge Project. In addition to the guaranteed funding, the Province has also nominated the bridge project to the Federal Government’s Investing in Canada’s Infrastructure Program as part of the Rural and Northern stream.
Yurek says he is confident that the project will be approved federally before the next election is called.
The project is expect to cost around $5 million, with a completion date set for sometime in the fall of 2020.
The need for a new bridge comes after the previous one collapsed in February of 2018 while a dump truck drove over it, leaving it stranded in the water for roughly a month.
The new bridge is expected to include a bicycle lane, as well as pedestrian walk ways. Access into to Port Bruce is currently only available through a one lane, temporary bridge located on Bank Street that cost Elgin County about $1.5 million.
