The Woodlawn Bridge, located on Cheapside Road as it meets Lakeshore Road and Lake Erie’s north shore, spans the Sandusk Creek in Haldimand County. Originally erected in 1929, this rare, historically significant, two-span pony truss bridge was in poor shape and no longer able to support essential traffic loads, including water trucks, and emergency response fire engines.

In order to prevent the demolition and replacement of this historic structure, our rehabilitation design included sandblasting, re-coating, and reinforcing the 84-year-old steel trusses and rehabilitating the abutments and piers. With Finnbilt General Contracting Limited carrying out construction, our design successfully allowed for the single-lane bridge to remain in place and for the load limit to be increased to allow water trucks and fire engines to travel over the creek safely.

Today, Woodlawn Bridge is the only twin-span pony truss bridge remaining in Ontario.