 The bridge is the only fixed road crossing between Maple Ridge and Agassiz.Before the Mission Bridge was completed, the only link between the City of Abbotsford and the City of Mission was the CPR's Mission Railway Bridge which had wooden planks laid on the ties between the rails, and outside the rails, to allow the passage of automobile traffic.Due to floods in the 1940s and 1950s, the bridge and surrounding area were becoming inaccessible.