Great Canadian Bridges

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

kosovo was part of serbia's amazing culture and history of diversity too.

That is a completely ridiculous comparison. Canada has never waged genocide on Quebec, nor have we implaced tyrannical laws on them. Jesus. What a bunch of shit.

[Chadillaccc]

There we go! I've been a bit too impassioned to say things eloquently like that, but there you go, I agree!

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Well, sorry to disappoint. I've just had enough of the ungrateful shit we get on a monthly basis in the news out of Quebec. This is Canada, the most diverse country ever to exist, Quebec is part of our amazing culture and heritage of diversity. End of story.

anyway, whatever, i am both an anglo-quebecer and, at the end of the day, a federalist, so i can't go too deep into the p.q. rationale.

it's just that these things are hard and old and people don't just shut up or accept their fate in the way that we might want them to. not even if we yell at them. they exist and speak and have families and have entire ways of looking at the world that are different, even sometimes mistakenly so, and that lead them to view things you think of as being amazing as not being very amazing at all.

albanians don't think kosovo's long history in serbia, and its role at the centre of that country's national myth, is very amazing at all. they think it's perverse and irrelevant. that's because they want to go around speaking albanian and being albanian and having the main founding institutions of their country -- not their province, their country -- be representative of this albanian-ness.

and so here they are. they squawked and protested and acted ungrateful until everyone had had so much of their shit (from the serbian perspective) that they were okay with milosevic strutting into fushe kosova, just outside of pristina, and telling everyone: end of story.

but then all of a sudden it very much wasn't.




funny old world, innit.

[headhorse]

the Arlington Bridge in Winnipeg is 101 years old today


from: http://web.stagram.com/n/arynnem/


from: http://peglegged.blogspot.ca/2011/04...on-bridge.html

[kool maudit]

maybe just back to bridges though.

[Jeff]

love the arlington street bridge! drove over it today and had an extended stay as i got stuck at the red light on top before the slope down to logan! used to love going over that bridge as a kid.

[Chadillaccc]

I was under the impression that the conversation was over? Guess not.


Could someone maybe post a shot of that Winnipeg bridge in length profile? It looks huge!

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

I was under the impression that the conversation was over? Guess not.

!

It is odd that you would sow the seeds of a storm and then complain that the wind is messing up your hair.

[roccerfeller]

guys....great canadian bridges....this french discussion is interesting, but perhaps it could be moved to an appropriate thread?


Happy 101st, Arlington Bridge! Winnipeg has some sweet bridges, and that one is also one of my fav's. Goes over the large train yards into the North End. Pretty stunning to see when crossing in person, instead of in a car though both give different experiences.







images aren't mine; top two shots are courtesy of WFP, bottom is a flickr upload from google image search

[Nathan]

And... without further ado... a bridge!!!


I did a search of the thread, and apparently it hasn't made it in yet... Regina's only bridge of note (they aren't particularly necessary here), the Albert Memorial Bridge:


Source = Postcard from UofA Library

You can see the obelisk type structures at the entry-points. It was built with a bit of an egyptian influenced style in the late 20s as a Depression make-work project. Sadly, the streetcar lines have all been ripped out (there was a fire in the 60s or so at Regina's storage building that destroyed basically the entire fleet, and thus officially ended street cars in Regina).

The length of the bridge is 256m... and it crosses a water span of about 8-10m... Yes... most of the "bridge" is on solid, level ground.

Some views of the detailing in the balustrades and Lamp Posts:


Source = Flickr (Daniel Paquet)


Source = Flickr (Daniel Paquet)


Definitely a decorative bridge, but it also suits the area, leading as somewhat of a "grand entrance" of sorts to the Legislature. Definitely a unique bridge in Canada.

[Jeff]

that bridge is very graceful and understated. thanks for bringing some attention to it! i wish the osborne bridge over the assiniboine beside the manitoba legislature had 1/10th of the forethought put into it during its recent $20 million reconstruction..


source: http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_...960/image.jpeg

for one of the city's busiest bridges pedestrian-wise and its location, it's horribly utilitarian.

[Chadillaccc]

I asked a mod to remove my rant... no such luck yet. I feel bad for being such a jerk. I do stand by my points though, just not the way I said it.

[The_Architect]

[Chadillaccc]

The Peace Bridge, taken this Sunday by me.


100_2319 by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

The Peace Bridge, taken this Sunday by me.


100_2319 by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

that thing is very cool.

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

that thing is very cool.

Agreed. It's a bit on the pricey side for a pedestrian bridge, but it's a show piece and well worth the expense.

[Chadillaccc]

Ps. I like that Edmonton LRT bridge. When will the new line be UC? When the current one UC is finished next year?

[Airboy]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Ps. I like that Edmonton LRT bridge. When will the new line be UC? When the current one UC is finished next year?

Set up funding, then construction should start in 2015 with line completion around 2019

[Chadillaccc]

Yeah, it's extremely nice in person. They are building another very nice new suspension bridge to one of the river islands and the north shore of the river just off the East Village.

Originally Posted by Airboy

Set up funding, then construction should start in 2015 with line completion around 2019

Excellent! Which line is it again? The southeast or southwest? How long will it be in the first phase?

[ciudad_del_norte]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

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Excellent! Which line is it again? The southeast or southwest? How long will it be in the first phase?

It is the southeast to west line, (now called the 'valley line'). The firt phase would most likely be southeast (millwoods) to dt (centre-west) which is 12 stations out of the total proposed 26. The entire line is around 27 km.