More Problems with Canadian Bridges
More Problems with Canadian Bridges
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Falling Gardiner chunk misses car
January 28, 2007
Tamara Cherry
Staff Reporter
A piece of the Gardiner Expressway about the size of a basketball broke off last night, narrowly missing a car stopped on York St. below.
No one was injured when the concrete fell from beneath the overpass, shattering on the median where the westbound Gardiner meets northbound York St. around 11:40 p.m., Acting Staff Sgt. Craig Lewers said.
from the Toronto Star
January 28, 2007
Tamara Cherry
Staff Reporter
A piece of the Gardiner Expressway about the size of a basketball broke off last night, narrowly missing a car stopped on York St. below.
No one was injured when the concrete fell from beneath the overpass, shattering on the median where the westbound Gardiner meets northbound York St. around 11:40 p.m., Acting Staff Sgt. Craig Lewers said.
from the Toronto Star






RE: More Problems with Canadian Bridges
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Dik
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Though for most clients or bridge owners an engineer is usually responsible for the overall program but not the actual work.
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Do you have any details on those projects?
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And, yes, they really are working on some new bridges, in the planning stages now. See this site for some conceptual views:
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There is also a 15MB presentation on the bridges on this site, but I couldn't get it to open right.
The Trinity River isn't that big, so bridges across it aren't usually big news- these are different mainly because they are not the plain ol' bridges like we normally see around here.
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The architect for this project also has some info on his website, but it's fairly vague.
www.bingthomarchitects.com, look for "Projects", then "Urban design", then "Trinity Point Planning Project"
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Writing form Ottawa, Ontario, if it matters.