Lanark County asks Mississippi Mills to pay for Blakeney bridge sidewalk

Blakeney Bridge image via lanarkcounty.ca

Lanark County is asking Mississippi Mills to foot the bill for a pedestrian sidewalk on the new Blakeney bridge.

Council unanimously agreed in December to move ahead with a $3.85 million two-way bridge with no walkway, scheduled to be built next year.

Now they’re saying a sidewalk will be added if Mississippi Mills will pony up about $380,000 of their own capital to add it.

That conversation will be had around their municipal horseshoe and if council decides against it, the bridge will proceed without a sidewalk as originally intended.

Story by Grant Deme