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Keith Gerein: Historic opportunity arises with loss of Edmonton's iconic bridges

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Just when I thought this city council’s contribution to public infrastructure would be limited to decisions on how many ancient buses to replace or which decrepit arena to tear down, it turns out the group, ahem, now has a much bigger bridge to cross.

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Two of them, in fact.

City administration’s announcement that a pair of Edmonton’s iconic river crossings need to come down is nothing short of a bombshell that will reverberate for years through city finances, politics, transportation dynamics and more.

“Generational infrastructure” is how the city’s deputy manager of infrastructure, Sara Nichols, termed the call to fully replace the structures rather than again rehabilitate them.

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