The Forks Rd bridge in Dain City has been permanently closed and is set to be demolished.

Further information on the Forks Rd bridge can be found in the Welland Tribune Online.

As a result, both the Rose City Triathlon and the Barrelman Niagara Falls bike courses have received modifications for 2019. This presents a challenging turn of events not only for our planning, but also for local residents and business.

What goes into finding a solution? While a perfect solution is always difficult to find, one must consider topics such as:

condition of roadways

distance of total course with changes

local traffic patterns on weekends

ingress / egress of residents and which road options exist as alternative routes

day of event and how traffic flows on that day (example, is it near the local church on Sunday morning)

number of police required to implement the closures, and number available in the detachment

stakeholders and municipal support for approval for the usage of the roadways

are regional roadways being used, and which traffic controls will need to be established in order to obtain permissions

This is not an exhaustive list however, we have come up with the following solutions for 2019 allowing us to continue to keep the courses as similar as possible to previous years. The City of Welland as well as the local stakeholders have agreed to support these changes. The new courses have been published to the event websites, a summary of the changes can be found below for crossing the Canal without using the Dain City Bridge.

Rose City Triathlon

Long Course will access Forks Rd via Fitness pathway from Canal Bank St to Colborne St and onwards to Forks Rd. See Course Page

Short Courses will limit road usage to Townline Tunnel Road between Prince Charles Drive and Canal Bank St as well as Canal Bank St between Ontario St and Townline Tunnel in order to allow for ingress/egress of Dain City residents during the event. The result of this is that we have less road to work with, resulting in more laps, however the roads will remain fully closed from vehicular traffic…a big positive! See Sprint Page See Give-it-a-tri Page



Barrelman Niagara Falls

Access to Forks Rd will be done via Prince Charles Dr, Kleiner, Pietz for outbound cyclists only. See first 3kms of route on course page.

Canal Crossing will be done via Colborne St and then using the Fitness Path to access Canal Bank St for cyclists on return route towards the Tunnel. See kms 56-58 on gps map on course page.

See Course Page for details

Once the future of the Dain City bridge; specifically if a replacement will be built or not has been determined, we will revisit the routes once again.

– The MultiSport Canada Team