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Starting Tuesday, Regina residents are to start to see and hear a bit more activity happening at the city’s long-dormant, infamous hole — Capital Pointe.
Work crews with CBS Contracting Inc., are to start the approximately four-month-long project of filling in the hole at Victoria Avenue and Albert Street.
But drivers commuting to and from work in the mornings and afternoons shouldn’t have to deal with any new headaches as the work starts. CBS trucks are only to be hauling in dirt to fill the site at night, from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m.
The City of Regina says the trucks won’t be in the downtown during peak traffic-commuting hours, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
And there won’t be any new road restrictions or delays added to accommodate the work; same goes for sidewalks in the area.
During the day, CBS will pack down the soil and remove shoring components in the hole.
The city’s Karen Gasmo said that Tuesday’s activities will mostly consist of CBS crews prepping the site and getting it ready, working inside the hole.
“It’s not going to be a whole lot of dirt coming in all at once,” she said.
Gasmo is the director of sustainable infrastructure, managing the team that’s handling the fill-in project.
She said that once CBS is fully up and running with the work, her team estimates it’ll be sending six to 10 trucks per hour in and out of the hole with dirt.
If trucks are waiting to get into the hole during the day, they’ll line up in the northbound Albert Street curb lane, south of Victoria Avenue, she said.
“When material is being hauled to the site, (trucks) will come up Albert Street,” she said.
Gasmo added that there won’t be any changes to bus stops or bus routes at the intersection.
The hole is expected be filled and the work done by October.
