Extensive vandalism to Peace Bridge reopens debate about heavy costs yyc
with a hammer and bricks, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. Police were called to the scene but the man evaded arrest and the vandalism remains under investigation.
“The maintenance cost of this is way too high,” said White. “What have we learned from having it that allows us to maybe do a small retrofit to make the bridge still be a beautiful bridge, but also be something that’s less costly to maintain?”Article content Each panel costs about $12,000 to replace. On average, the city has had to replace six panels annually due to damage, at a cost of more than $500,000 since the bridge was finished in 2012. The dozens of panels destroyed Sunday will cost hundreds of thousands to replace.
She said vandalism of bus shelters is also an ongoing issue, so the city needs to look into alternative materials. The bridge brings visitors from the downtown into other neighbourhoods, and across the Bow River to Hillhurst and Sunnyside, he said.
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