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Canada's abandonned structures still in use.

The title is quite contradictory but there're certain structures (roads, public transport, building) that we use every day that seem abandoned by cities / governments that no longer put a penny in these structures to repair them. I create this thread to make a compilation of these semi-abandoned structures of third world.

I start with a bridge on A-15 near St-Adèle, Qc


And this bridge of A-40 East to A-73 South in Québec City, fortunately the interchange is under reconstruction
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Old Posted Mar 30, 2020, 9:59 PM
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I think the overpass of A440 (Dufferin-Montmorency) in Downtown Quebec is like that too?
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Do you perhaps mean "derelict structures" rather than "abandoned structures"?
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The Patullo Bridge looks like an excellent candidate EXCEPT we have been putting quite a bit of money into it so it stays operational long enough for the new one to take over. There have been structural life extensions implemented along with deck and paving repairs just in the last 5 or so years. It might still fall down or over in extreme conditions.

Generally, we don't really have these contradictory cases much around Vancouver. Maybe someone knows of one.
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The Georgia viaducts in Vancouver, still very much in use, but waiting to be torn down, are an example.
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From the "should be replaced but still in use" file, we have 4 401 overpasses in the London area that date back to the origins of the highway still being used. Colonel Talbot and Glanworth Drive on the west side, and highway 74 and Dorchester on the east. Last year, highway 73 was replaced, so gradually these are being done.
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There are 401 overpasses in Oshawa that date from the mid 1930’s.. 85+ years old. I believe they are all scheduled to be replaced prior to their 90th birthday though.

There are many bridges on the QEW that date from that period as well. One in Etobicoke is currently being replaced but one in Oakville was restored about 10 years ago and should easily reach 100+ years. They are in process of restoring the Credit River bridge in Mississauga as well which should extend its life.
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One of the most notoriously crappy pieces of infrastructure I can think of around here is the CPR underpass on Main Street in Winnipeg. It was built in 1904 to accommodate the CPR mainline and tracks leading to the CPR station. The station tracks are gone but the mainline trains still keep chugging through.

CPR owns the bridge structure and they claim it is still structurally sound, but it looks atrocious... it is basically a dank, crumbling tunnel in one of the dingiest parts of town. Whatever aesthetic merit it had was eliminated in the postwar years when the gentle curves were squared off to allow for greater height limits for traffic passing underneath.

If you are interested in seeing it there are some good pictures on a local blogger's flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/christ...th/2539960231/
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^ they did recently rehab all of the concrete columns.
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^ they did recently rehab all of the concrete columns.
Oh yeah, I have no doubt that CP is keeping it in good structural shape since it's a part of their main line. But it certainly looks like hell.

In terms of structures that have actually outlived their safe useful lives, Winnipeg's Arlington Bridge, which crosses the CP yards a little farther to the west of the Main underpass, is probably a more glaring example. It can't handle anything much heavier than a F-350 anymore, and it has been closed many times in recent years for urgent band aid repairs. It's slated for replacement but with things being the way they are now, who knows when that will happen.



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Here is the old King Street Crossing of the Don River in Toronto.

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The bridge was built in 1933 replacing an older wooden bridge that had been damaged by ice on the Don River in 1900. The original cost was $70,864.07.

The bridge was closed off in 1964 after the construction of the Don Valley Parkway. Eastern's east and west halves crossed the Don River north of the old alignment via a new large bridge with ramps connecting to the Don Valley Parkway, and this viaduct (known as the Eastern Avenue Bypass in some maps) forked out and become the eastern terminus of both Richmond and Adelaide streets. With the Eastern Avenue Bypass just to the north and the elevated Gardiner Expressway just to the south, it was decided that the existing Eastern Avenue bridge was unnecessary at that point on the Don River. The bridge was thus disconnected from the road network, and also fenced in to block pedestrians as the Parkway and the rail lines are both considered hazardous.

The city considered demolishing the unused southern bridge, but found that it would be more expensive than simply maintaining it, and continues to inspect the bridge to this day.


An old construction picture. There is also another bridge on it's north side that has been covered over.

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That one is fascinating to me since it hasn’t been used in nearly 60 years.

The bridge to the south of it carries an Enbridge pipeline from my understanding that is currently in the process of getting replaced with a new one tunnelled under the river. I wonder if they end up demolishing both bridges after that’s done.

It’s not hard to get out onto the bridge either despite its abandoned state. There is a trail that runs right beside it with a fence that always has a hole in it that you can duck through.
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Not sure if it qualifies. The Prince of Wales Bridge in Ottawa, a former CPR freight line. Built in 1880. It was used up until the late 20th or early 21st century.

The City of Ottawa purchased the bridge in 2005 with the intention of eventually extending the Trillium Line north to Gatineau. Over the past 15 years, we've had endless debates on whether it should be used for Gatineau's RapiBus, commuter rail or the O-Train, all while debating a 6th road bridge between the two cities.

Today, the plan is to restore the bridge to accommodate pedestrians and cyclists (a current illegal use) however, neither Ottawa or Gatineau want to pay for it, so it will be up to the Feds.



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^ That reminds me. Another CPR bridge in Winnipeg that is literally abandoned... the Bergen Cut-Off railway bridge over the Red River. It was built in 1914 as part of a CP bypass around the built up parts of the city, but for reasons that were never really clear to me, it was abandoned a short time later. It hasn't been used by trains since the late 1920s, but it still stands there today.

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That one is fascinating to me since it hasn’t been used in nearly 60 years.

The bridge to the south of it carries an Enbridge pipeline from my understanding that is currently in the process of getting replaced with a new one tunnelled under the river. I wonder if they end up demolishing both bridges after that’s done.

It’s not hard to get out onto the bridge either despite its abandoned state. There is a trail that runs right beside it with a fence that always has a hole in it that you can duck through.

I want to go in the covered bridge. It has a door that faces the DVP that looks easy to get into. If I can convince a friend to join I'll get inside it with a flashlight.
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The Richard L. Hearn Generating Station

The Richard L. Hearn Generating Station (named after Richard Lankaster Hearn) is a decommissioned electrical generating station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The plant was originally fired by coal, but later converted to burn natural gas. The plant has been described as "Pharaonic in scale",[1] and encompasses 650 thousand cubic metres of space[1]—large enough to fit 12 Parthenons inside.[2]

The plant is located at 440 Unwin Avenue in Toronto's Port Lands area, directly south of the foot of Carlaw Avenue, across the shipping channel and next to the recently opened Portlands Energy Centre. The Richard L. Hearn Generating Station, together with the nearby Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant sewage sludge incinerator stack and the Commissioners Street waste incinerator stack, stand as towering landmarks of a bygone industrial era in the Portlands area of Toronto (all three facilities are no longer in operation, but their towering smokestacks still stand). The property has been leased to Studios of America since 2002.[3]

Decommissioned in 1983
The smoke stack is 705ft tall.

SAVE THE HEARN, The Richard L. Hearn Generating Station by Linda Edwards, on Flickr

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Hearn by Andrew Badgley, on Flickr

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'One Thousand Speculations' .... 2016 Luminato Festival / The Hearn .... Toronto, Ontario by Greg's Southern Ontario (catching Up Slowly), on Flickr

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Lower Bay Station

Below the main platform for Bay station is an abandoned platform, which was used for only six months in 1966 when the TTC experimentally ran trains whose routes included portions of both the Yonge–University and Bloor–Danforth lines. This abandoned platform is sometimes referred to as "Lower Bay" by the general public or "Bay Lower" by the TTC.[4][5]

The platform was in service from February to September 1966 as part of an interlining experiment, in which the TTC ran trains along three routes, with one matching the subsequent Bloor–Danforth line, and the other two combining parts of the Bloor–Danforth line with the Yonge–University line. The experiment was deemed a failure, largely because delays anywhere quickly cascaded to affect the entire system.[6] Also, as the stations had not been laid out effectively for cross-platform interchange, trains travelling east from St. George and west from Yonge alternated between the two levels, leading passengers to wait on the stairs in-between the levels, since they were unable to tell which platform would receive the next train.[4]

With every station served by at least two routes (Bloor–Yonge station was served by all three routes, with the Yonge–University–Danforth route passing through it twice, once on each level), passengers could travel between any two stations without changing trains; though for some station combinations, such as travel between a station north of Bloor and one on the Bloor–Danforth route, transferring at Bloor-Yonge Station resulted in a more direct path. The TTC found that when the extra time waiting for a train from the correct route was considered, the time savings were not significant.

Visiting Bay Lower by synestheticstrings, on Flickr
This station has been closed to the public since 1966. It has been used many times as a major “Hollywood North” prop, dressed to look like an American subway station. The posters show a selection of films and TV shows shot in the station.



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These bridges were not torn down, just burried.

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The Harbord Street Bridge was a single span reinforced concrete Arch bridge built from 1909 to 1914 that carried Harbord over Garrison Creek in the area known today as Palmerston–Little Italy and for the extension of Beatrice Street to Bloor Street West.[1] The bridge was built to allow the better means for people in the new residential development to move around the neighbourhood. The bridge crossed over the creek over from Montrose Avenue to Grace Street. The bridge bisects the Bickford Park neighbourhood with Bickford Park to the north side and Harbord Park to the south. Infilling of the area around the bridge began in 1917 [2] and both sides were filled by the 1930, likely due to sewage being dumped into the creek following residential development,[3] but the balustrades on either side were still exposed. Today, only the northern balustrade remains visible. Like the , it was not torn down but buried. The bridge, the valley, and the creek have all now disappeared underground.


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The Crawford Street Bridge

Crawford Street Bridge is one of two known bridges that once spanned over Garrison Creek valley (the actual creek disappeared as brick sewer in 1885 [1]) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and buried intact in the 20th century. The bridge shares design features with the larger Prince Edward Viaduct.

The Crawford Bridge was a triple span Arch bridge built in 1914 to 1915 to replace an early wooden bridge (1884) that spanned Garrison Creek in the area known today's as Trinity-Bellwoods.[2] The bridge's design was influenced by Public Works Commissioner R.C. Harris with a more pleasing structure for the public. The bridge was built to allow residents in the new residential development along Crawford Street to cross over the valley over from north of Lobb Avenue to the south of Dundas Street West.

In the 1960s the valley on either side was filled in with earth dug from building the Bloor subway. It was the last of few bridges that spanned Garrison Creek to be removed, most before the 1940s. The actual bridge was not torn down, but rather buried with only the railings and lamp posts removed. The City of Toronto government performed maintenance work in 2004 that narrowed the roadbed and rebuilt sidewalks on both sides. Foaming grout was added to fill the voids of the bridge with hope for future restoration of the entire bridge.[3] Today there are no visible signs of the bridge being present other than plaques and sidewalk markers added in 2008 by the City of Toronto. Once rolling landscape, houses and flat Trinity Bellwoods Park now surround the bridge.
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Could you post Google Street Views of those?
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Could you post Google Street Views of those?
Harbord. Speaking of hippy vans.. this one still has the old railing on the north side of the street:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6596...7i16384!8i8192

The Crawford Avenue one is harder to know where it is, there isn't any phyiscal sign of it on the surface. It would be this stretch of Crawford though:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6490...7i16384!8i8192
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