A six-month closure of the Petitcodiac River causeway linking Moncton and Riverview begins Monday afternoon, a step required to finish a new bridge that's part of a decades-long effort to restore the river ecosystem. For years, officials have feared the closure will create traffic tie-ups as thousands of vehicles that use the causeway daily shift to the Gunningsville Bridge. Mike Pauley is the New Brunswick government's project manager for the bridge that will replace the Petitcodiac River causeway. Construction of the Petitcodiac River causeway underway on Oct. 6, 1966. "The communities have been waiting for that for years and years because that causeway has created a major disruption in our ecosystem," Babin said of the pending causeway closure.

Source: CBC News April 05, 2021 09:00 UTC