Workers install locking gates Thursday on the pedestrian overpass between N. and S. Railway streets in downtown Medicine Hat. They will be locked during the overnight hours this winter.--News Photo
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Locking metal gates are now in place at the pedestrian underpass linking N. and S. Railway streets in downtown Medicine Hat, and will be used in the overnight hours starting Monday evening.
City municipal works officials said the nightly closures, from 11 p.m. until 6 a.m., are part of a “secure spaces” program meant to prevent unintended use of city infrastructure.
Medicine Hat city police later told the News the concern was the discovery of propane heaters and other fires in the underground passage during the colder winter months last winter.
Pedestrians that need to cross the Canadian Pacific tracks and marshalling yard in the downtown area in the overnight hours are directed to use the First Street underpass one block south.
