QEW Garden City Skyway – Bridge Twinning project

project awarded

The project involves the development of a new QEW Garden City Skyway twin bridge and rehabilitating the existing QEW Garden City Skyway in the Regional Municipality of Niagara, Canada.The existing QEW Garden City Skyway is a 48-span, high-level bridge that is 2.2 km long, and 28 m wide and carries the QEW over the Welland Canal, connecting the City of St. Catharines and the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake. The scope of work includes:construction of a new QEW Garden City Skyway twin bridge to the north;rehabilitation of the existing QEW Garden City Skyway;realignment of local roads including portions of Dieppe Road, Queenston Street, York Road, Niagara Stone Road, Coon Road, Taylor Road, Queenston Road, and the Welland Canals Parkway Trail to accommodate the new highway right of way and bridge structure;minor changes to the eastbound Niagara Street interchange ramps and speed-change lanes, and minor modifications to the Glendale Avenue interchange westerly speed-change lanes;relocation of affected utilities; andconstruction of three stormwater management ponds.