Burnaby Now April 25 2019

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FRY DAY: Volunteer JC Rea and Olivia Chang, 3, help release 50,000 chum fry at Charles Rummel Park on Saturday in Burnaby. See more photos on page 11. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Overpass destroyed by truck to be replaced Kelvin Gawley

kgawley@burnabynow.com

A pedestrian overpass destroyed by a dump truck in 2017 will be replaced this summer, according to the City of Burnaby. The foot bridge that once spanned Beaverbrook Drive connected two residential areas near Lougheed Town

Centre. In 2017, the director of nearby Village Daycare, Wanda Gray, told the NOW the missing overpass kept her staff from bringing kids to a park on the other side. She was worried the city would not replace it. “Without the bridge, we’ll have to stay on our side,” she said.

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Area residents rallied to push the city to replace the overpass, starting an online petition that currently has 390 supporters. Doug Louie, assistant director of engineering, said residents wanted the overpass replaced. “The city is rebuilding the Beaverbrook overpass with a similar structure that

existed previously and construction is scheduled for this summer with expected completion this fall,” he told the NOW in an email. The city’s 2019-2023 capital plan budgets $300,000 for the project, but Louie said “the majority of it will be recovered from the at-fault parties and their insurers.”

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Crash site: Firefighters on scene at Beaverbrook Drive after a dump truck crashed into a overpass in 2017. PHOTO RYAN STELTING, FILES

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