Overnight closures coming to Metro Vancouver highway starting today
Work on the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project continues, and a major Metro Vancouver highway is closing down overnight starting today to facilitate the next phase.
Fraser Crossing Partners, which is designing, building, and partially financing the bridge replacement, announced that Highway 17 will close westbound to traffic starting on Monday, February 18.
The closures will begin at 9 pm and end at 5 am the next day. Emergency responders and cyclists will not be granted access and will need to follow detours, which will be clearly marked.
Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project
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Overnight closures on Highway 17 will last until February 24 for girder installation, activities, and installation of the multi-use path overhang deck.
Drivers heading westbound on Highway 17 will be detoured at Bridgeview Drive to King George Boulevard, 120th Street, and Tannery Road to continue their commute.
It is also just one of several closures and detours happening for the next several weeks, with Highway 17 eastbound, Bridge Road and Old Yale Road in Surrey also slated for intermittent closures starting this month.
Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project
The Government of British Columbia announced last spring that the new replacement Pattullo Bridge is now slated to open in Fall 2025. The cost of the project is currently $1.637 billion as of a Fall 2024 fiscal update by the province.
Immediately after the new bridge opens, work will begin on decommissioning and demolishing the adjacent existing 1937-built bridge. Wendy Itagawa, the provincial government’s executive director for the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project, told Daily Hive that it will take about one year to take down the old seismically deficient bridge.
With files from Kenneth Chan