Pattullo Bridge closing for the weekend
Posted August 17, 2012 8:04 am.
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SURREY (NEWS1130) – You can forget about using the Patullo Bridge this weekend.
It’s going to be closed starting at 9 p.m. today to allow crews to re-pave the span between New Westminster and Surrey.
Kim Seale in News1130 Air Patrol remembers the last time this happened.
“They had huge delays at the Port Mann Bridge. It was the feeder routes that suffered the worst of it,” she recalls.
“Don’t forget, the Port Mann, with all that construction going on right now, you’ll find it extra-busy on the 160th and 152nd merge points trying to get to the Port Mann for westbound traffic,” she adds.
Kim also expects it to be a mess on the Alex Fraser and Queensborough Bridges.
The Pattullo is expected to re-open in time for the commute on Monday morning.
“They say they’re going to re-open at 3 a.m. on Monday. We didn’t get that re-opened the last time they did this until closer to 6 a.m. So, we had substantial delays for that Monday morning rush hour,” Kim points out.
News1130 will be tracking the closure all weekend so keep it locked here, especially Monday so you know if the Pattullo is still closed.
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