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Trim Road Reconstruction Update
Probably not. No. Yeah I definitely will Stephanie. Hi I'm Joe Mosjej I'm the Senior Project
manager with construction services. We're at our site office for the Trim Road reconstruction
project. The detailed design started in 2010, construction started last year about November 2012, and
we're halfway through the two year construction on Trim Road. The facility we're building
is the widening and realignment of Trim Road, between the North Service Road which is just
north of Highway 174, all the way to Innes Road. So we're realigning it somewhat to
the east, we're building roundabouts at the Dairy Drive intersection and at the St-Joseph
Boulevard intersection. We're building 26 lane kilometres of road,
that's enough roadway to go from our site to Parliament Hill. We're building 5 km
of storm sewer. We're building 2.5 km of large diameter watermain and about 2.5 km
of local watermain. The earth excavation which is a major feature on this job is 345,000
cubic metres. That's 34,000 truckloads of material that have to leave the site. We're
putting down 47,000 tonnes of asphalt. We have 160 street lights to install. We have
30 km of electrical cabling to install as part of this job. And one of the nice features
is we're planting 10,000 trees with this project.
Our contractor will be continuing to work this winter, they're still excavating the
second half of the hill. We still have half of the roadway to build, we still have alot
of the low grade infrastructure such as storm sewers, water mains, electrical utilities
to put in. Previously Trim Road was a two lane roadway
which had rural cross sections and there were no formal sidewalks. So at the end of the
project Trim Road will have four lanes, two in each direction: two north bound and two
south bound. On each side of the road we'll have cycling lanes adjacent to the curb. There
will be grass boulevards between the roadway and the pathways. We're building three meter
wide multi-use pathways on both sides, and along the whole corridor we're going to install
landscaping trees, shrubs and grass in the open areas