THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

on the road portion of this connection. It was also mentioned
that there may be a grant available to cover the cost of the
bridge or a portion thereof.

Construction of the above section of road and bridge
assumes that agreement cen be reached with the District for the
section of road which lies within the District. Obviously we
are mot going to be able to reach an agreement prior to January
3rd. However, since the design and construction of the bridge
will carry us into 1984 in any case, the Committee feels we
should make application now and use the next few months until
Highways approval is forthcoming to try to get agreement with
the District on the road within their boundaries.

A very rough estimate of the cost of. this crossing
and approach roads has been done. There are many uncertainties
in this price because of the lack of knowledge about soil
conditions and lack of an existing bridge design. However, the
rough estimates may be useful to Council to.give an idea of the
potential range of costs. The bridge itself is expected to
cost somewhere in the order of $900,000. The new approach road
on the City side may cost $250,000 and some reconstruction of
Wilson Avenue and traffic signals at the intersection of
Shaughnessy and Wilson may add another $200,000. The total
cost that the City would be facing then would be around 1.4
million dollars. Assuming that at least 50% would be available
from Highways under Revenue Sharing and grants and another 1/4
million from insurance proceeds, that would leave about half a
million dollars to finance through Development Cost Charges or
other reserves.

Meetings at the technical level as well as at the
political level will be taking place shortly between ourselves,
the District and the Department of Highways. In the meantime,
the Committee recommends approval of an application for Revenue
Sharing on these projects.

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2 fF.E. Peters#, P. Eng,
City Engineer

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