Cambie Bridge Construction Booklet (CoV 1985)

[officedweller]

Interesting City of Vancouver booklet on the construction of the Cambie Street Bridge.
- from the days (1985) before segmental girder construction was adopted locally as the preferred method of construction for elevated structures.

http://vancouver.ca/engsvcs/streets/...ridge_book.pdf

[SFUVancouver]

Very neat find.

It's amazing that the second Cambie Bridge, officially the Connaught Bridge, saw daily use by horse-drawn vehicles right through to the late 1950s. Plus it kept catching fire(!), which was not an uncommon problem in Vancouver; the first two Granville Street Bridges were also damaged by fire that roared up from Granville Island.

[Stingray2004]

An interesting tidbit - the plebiscite was held on March 18, 1984. But some of the piers for the new bridge on the south-west quadrant, in the vicinity of Leg-In-Boot-Square, were already constructed circa 1982.

No one knew about this matter until some reporter began to ask questions. Then mayor Harcourt down-played the significance of those new piers but it was obvious that design had commenced considerably prior to what is stated in this article.

[officedweller]

A bit like certain bike lanes...