Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[SammyOES]

The Province has begun early works for the Grand River Bridges through the 2023-3045 contract, issued to Kiewit. They're clearing land that will allow for advanced grading operations to occur. This allows for some additional geotechnical work to occur for the bridges, that geotech work was delayed for various reasons that I'm not at liberty to discuss. The bridges themselves are however close to having the design and construction contract completed (pending things like the remaining geotech work).

Kiewit has a site office set up off of Shirley and have already cleared significant portions of land down around the Walter Bean Trail.

I’ve been surprised by the scale of the clearing and grading that is happening. Is it just preparation for the bridge work or is it also starting clearing and grading for the rest of the highway?

It also seems like they must have some rough idea of the bridge design in order to know what to grade/clear. But maybe they don’t need anything more than rough location?