The one-lane wooden Bailey bridge that connects Coquitlam to New Westminster at United Boulevard/Braid Street became a hot political issue - again - this year when it was closed for repairs due to structural problems.
Coquitlam called for an arbitrator to intervene when the Royal City refused its request to have two lanes across the Brunette River.
And in July, the arbitrator sided with Coquitlam, thus ending a 20-year feud between to the two municipalities.
The new bridge was promised to open over the summer, then the fall.
Now, because of construction negotiations, New West engineers report it'll be sometime in the new year before commuters can use it again.
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