Getting in and out of Dain City is going to be a lot harder going forward.

The city announced on Tuesday the Forks Road Bridge — one of two routes accessing the Welland suburb located on the peninsula between the Welland Recreational Waterway and the Welland Canal — will be closed indefinitely starting at 9 a.m. on Nov. 2. Pedestrian access will remain open, however all vehicular access will be banned. The closure effectively leaves Canal Bank Street as the only access to the area.

The bridge was closed in 2016 for maintenance and repairs that city staff had hoped would add years of life expectancy to the aging structure. A recent engineering inspection discovered however that the bridge is deteriorating faster than expected.

“It’s not possible to determine how quickly steel will continue to corrode, and the impact this will have,” said city manager of engineering services Chris Anders. He said with the city unable to control what vehicles cross the bridge, even with posted load restrictions, the closure comes as a public safety issue.