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That's it exactly- I think the key issue is whether the city can actually modify anything (ex sidewalk removal and conversion into wide path to match the supper section) on that roughly 100m of bridge deck for a reasonable price or without cutting off the second-busiest access for months of repaving. The city also wants to put a multiuse path all along Concession from the bottom left of your image to past where the trail you've highlighted intersects it, so it just seems like such a no-brainer if it can be done for a reasonable price.
Ok, so you're asking about the bridge part specifically, got'cha.
The curb lane is ~4.9M which should allow 1.4M of space to be repurposed. The existing sidewalk is ~1.5M. That gives you' 2.9M
The inner lane is ~3.4M, you can probably shave another 0.2 off that.
That gives enough for a trail/sidewalk, but without a barrier.
It would be a very tight squeeze to add one.
The bridge has a seam down the middle, two discrete decks, so, unfortunately, you can't shift space from the up direction to the down without a very big project.
But a raised, 3M path should be viable w/o ripping everything up. I say that w/o knowing where they've run the utilities or the exact engineering.....but I think is a solid....'guess'.
It's funny, I've done most of the Pacific Crest Trail and Arizona Trail, but despite living and working a few meters away from the Bruce, I've only done a few km of it!
Parts of the Bruce are gorgeous.
This one (below) is from Hamilton:
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