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A year after its sudden demolition, the West Edmonton Mall pedestrian bridge will be rebuilt through a cost-sharing agreement between the mall and City of Edmonton.

And the area councillor and residents are calling for quick action on the replacement overpass that aided the crossing of 170 Street for safe access to the mall.

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Resident Roger Breault, who lives in a nearby seniors home on the east side of 170 Street, said many of the building residents stopped going to the mall altogether this past year because they were scared to cross the street at 87 Avenue.

“Most of us moved here because we wanted to have access to that mall, because there was a pedestrian bridge real close by,” Breault said, noting he is only one of two Laurier House residents who still venture to the mall weekly. “Residents don’t want to take their life in their hands to go to the mall. They’re scared.”

When the bridge was still in place, Breault said he went to the mall in his motorized wheelchair about three times a week. Crossing the bustling intersection of 87 Avenue and 170 Street is always a huge risk, Breault said, and he is calling for the bridge to be rebuilt within a year.