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Saskatoon’s new Traffic Bridge should start to take shape next week, when construction on the first span of the replacement for the historic bridge is expected to begin on the south side of the South Saskatchewan River.

The first span will connect the southernmost pier in the river with an abutment built in the riverbank just north of Saskatchewan Crescent.

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The steel girders will be lifted into position by crane and then bolted into place, Dan Willems, the City of Saskatoon’s director of major project, told reporters on Monday.

Willems said both the Traffic Bridge and the north commuter bridge, part of a bundled P3 project, remain on track for completion by October 2018 as mandated by contract.

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“We’ve had a good summer,” Willems said. “Actually what was very helpful was the mild winter we had last year, which let us do a lot of construction last year where normally we would not have got as much done.