It’ll be two months later than planned, but the Lynn Headwaters Park intake road should be ready to take on traffic in early October, according to District of North Vancouver spokeswoman Stephanie Smiley.
The road – as well as 175 parking spots – were set to open in mid-August but rain delayed some of the work, Smiley noted.
“We expect to be able to open Intake Road in early October (weather permitting),” she wrote in an email.
Parking limits on Dempsey, Lynn Valley and Kilmer roads as well as Underwood Avenue are expected to stay in place as work crews pave the road and install new guard rails.
The district closed the road on Dec. 1, 2016 over fears of a landslide after a geotechnical analysis discovered an unstable sub-surface.
Built in the 1990s, the road was buttressed with fill that doesn’t meet modern standards, according to the district’s manager of public safety. Swapping out the fill was projected to cost $2 million. However, the district decided to secure the slope by anchoring slender, hollow nails in the ground, similar to adding rebar to concrete. The projected cost of the project was $700,000.
