Loyalist Creek runs through Thorn Lodge Park in Mississauga’s west end. A pedestrian bridge at the park has been repaired and reopened after a car crashed into it over a year ago. (Photo: City of Mississauga)

A pedestrian bridge in Mississauga’s west end that was closed for a year-and-a-half after a car crashed into it has been reopened for public use.

The foot bridge over Loyalist Creek in Thorn Lodge Park in the Sheridan Homelands neighbourhood was “significantly damaged” when a vehicle “crashed past the end of the road and into the park” in fall 2024, city officials said earlier.

After some delays, the bridge is now open once again, Mississauga Ward 2 Coun. Alvin Tedjo said last week. He raised the matter with City of Mississauga staff last fall, wondering what was taking so long to fix the structure.

The councillor added in a post to social media last week that “we finally got the new bridge installed, fixed, repaired; you can now walk on it, you can cycle on it.”

Tedjo said last fall he was concerned about the time it was taking to fix the bridge “because it’s one of the only accesses into that part of the park and it really cuts people off.”

City staff said at the time that, generally, issues involving structural integrity of bridges can take time.

Map shows Loyalist Creek as it runs through Thorn Lodge Park, south of Thorn Lodge Drive.

Loyalist Creek, which runs for about 600 metres through Thorn Lodge Park in the area south of Dundas Street West and west of Erin Mills Parkway, had been in a state of disrepair and had become unsafe for hikers, kids and others before it was restored and made safer a few of years ago.

Work to make the creek area safer for people was completed between 2021 and 2023.

According to the city several years ago, sections of the creek bank were “beginning to fall into the creek, posing a significant safety risk” as erosion was taking its toll on the watercourse back in 2021.


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