[Metro-One]

No pictures from me today, just some rambling. Bottom line is, if you love bridges then Vancouver is the place in Canada to be over the next 5 years. I was driving yesterday from Poco to Maple Ridge (two communities in the metro area, about a 15 to 20 minute drive) and in doing so i drove through the Coast Meridian Bridge project, the Pitt River bridge Project and the Golden Ears Bridge/connector project and i realized, how often in the country do you drive through 3 major cable stayed bridge construction projects in 15/20 minutes?

Essentially this is the list of Vancouver's new Bridges, all of them Cable stayed.

Skytrain Canada Line bridge over Fraser River - Complete and open this summer.

Coast Meridian 4 lane Overpass (this overpass is 600m long so it is not a small project) over large train yard - Opens 2010

Golden Ears 6 lane bridge over the Fraser River - Opens in June

Pitt River 7 (expandable to 8) lane bridge over the Pitt River - Opens November

New 10 lane Port Mann Bridge over Fraser Rive - U/C opens 2013

New Patullo Bridge over Fraser River (6 to 8 lanes) - Proposed, currently in sight of being fast tracked, construction could begin in less than 5 years.

So thats a possible six new major cable stayed bridges opening in Van in a 10 year span, awesome!