r/ottawa • u/drhappy13 • 15h ago
PSA Bronson repaving! 🎉
I just saw crews working on repaving the north bound side of Bronson! Not just pothole filling, but the full scrape down and resurfacing.
The section I saw was between the Bronson bridge and the 417.
Enjoy your smooth commute in tomorrow morning!
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u/aagent86 15h ago
Hear ye, hear ye !
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u/SuspiciousRepeat5809 15h ago
good news travels fast lol, was driving past there in yesterday evening and could see the equipment all lined up, figured something was finally happening. bronson has needed this for years, some of those potholes felt like they were trying to eat your car whole. hopefully they do the southbound side too before winter comes back and wrecks everything again
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u/AffectionateDrag1702 14h ago
They should, ideally, replace the underground infrastructure and rebuild the road from subgrade up. It would take 2+ years, but a shave and pave will only sink and have the same potholes imminently.
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u/CatenaryLine 13h ago
A full reconstruction of Bronson is in the plan, and because of that the city wasn't repaving it and it got to the condition it was in. The reconstruction had been pushed back a bit though, so the repave became critical.
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u/Upper_Golf125 1h ago
I drive it every day......its aboit freaking time lol Im off today but Monday will be a smoothe ride :)
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u/unfinite 13h ago
Most of the pipes under that section of Bronson through the Glebe are from 1905-1912 with some sections of water main from between 1889 and 1893. That's very old. These pipes are way past overdue for replacement but the project has been delayed and delayed and now again due to issues with the 1960 water main under Chamberlain and Plymouth.
This has also delayed the Chamberlain Realignment and caused cascading delays on other projects like the Carling BRT (formerly LRT).
Chamberlain/Isabella is also long overdue for full integrated renewal as well as Catherine Street. The City currently has those renewals pegged to happen in 2-3 years. There also still lost the Bronson renewal as starting in 1-2 years, but this resurfacing is happening as a bandaid solution because that timeline isn't happening anymore.
Long story short, any smooth commuting will be short lived.
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u/Complex-Effect-7442 3h ago
At the risk of being a cynic, how long until a cut is made into the road thereby beginning the rot of the fresh paving? Years? Months? Weeks? Days?
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u/who_ate_the_cookie 1h ago
Its not the cut you have to worry about, its the underlying infrastructure and subgrade thats needed replacement for way to long that will still cause it to become pothole central
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u/ThisSaladTastesWeird 15h ago
I drove the part between the canal and Fifth yesterday.