A warning from city officials: if you keep busting the fence, it will be replace with an impenetrable wall.
The message comes after the new fence to prevent pedestrian access to the Prince of Wales Railway Bridge was damaged just hours after it was put up.
"It's completely irresponsible," said Mayor Jim Watson. "These people are trying to make a point, but they're costing tax payers money and they're endangering people. You leave that gate open and a child wanders in there and guess what? They fall, drown and we end up with a loss of life, or an injured person."
Kitchissippi Ward Councillor Jeff Leiper warned the vandals not to force their hand.
"If the chain link fence solution - that is still bypass-able - continues to get cut or knocked down or jimmied open, the City is probably going to have little option but to put in place the very large and impenetrable solution for at least a couple of hundred thousand dollars," he said. "That's going to prevent anyone from being able to use the bridge, even illegally and it is a diversion of funds that could be used toward any number of actual safety improvements in the city."
Security will be stepped up in the area and trespassers will be fined.