Fans of
Pottery Road are going to have to wait a little bit longer.
The reconstruction of the popular alternative route was originally scheduled to re-open after Labour Day weekend, but in late August, the team realized the work they'd done might have destabilized the inclined earth around the road.
"We're going to put in something referred to as soil nails," says
Maurizio Barbon, the city's manager of design and construction, "long rods driven into the slope above the detaining wall, and then covering it with concrete and putting in some fill as well, to treat the slope as one large unit."
Barbon says the project was substantially completed on its original deadline. This week, they're finishing off a bit the re-pavement of the bottom end of the road near Bayview.
Barbon estimates the road will now re-open on Nov. 30.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Maurizio Barbon
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