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Huntsville’s Diggin’ Downtown construction project will remain in its second stage until further notice. “The reality is, right now we are between four and six weeks behind schedule,” said Director of Operations and Protective Services Steve Hernen, addressing the July virtual Council. “Originally this stage of the project, from Brunel to West Street, was supposed to be completed last week. Obviously it’s not completed, there’s still a lot of work to be done in that area.” The biggest factor in the delay is the recent heavy rainfall of 352 millimetres since the start of June, ...

SHARE ON: The River Swing Bridge in Huntsville (Photo taken by Martin Halek) The River Swing Bridge in Huntsville has reopened to vehicles, as the Diggin’ Downtown project moves into stage two. “Stage one is still waiting for street lights, trees, and some other products which are on backorder, but it’s nice to see the vehicle traffic getting back onto the swing bridge and things starting to move their way back to normal,” says Huntsville Director of Operations and Protective Services Steve Hernen. “Over the next few months, people will see everything completed in stage one, and co...

SHARE ON: The downtown construction in Stage One (Photo: Martin Halek) Huntsville’s Diggin’ Downtown project is set to enter its second stage by the second week of June. The first stage of the project was originally scheduled to finish by the end of May, but was extended because of historic building foundations, according to District of Muskoka Director of Transportation and Engineering Mark Misko. “A lot of these buildings are very old, to say the least, and they’ve got some interesting foundations that we had to work with,” says Misko. “That’s some of the reason we’re seein...