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View Poll Results: St Patrick's Island bridge comp: Which one do you like?
Rosales + Partners 15 8.11%
Halcrow Yolles (The Reach) 57 30.81%
Halcrow Yolles (Eddie & Flow) 16 8.65%
Manu Chugh 26 14.05%
Busby Perkins + Will 37 20.00%
Buckland Taylor 5 2.70%
Saucier + Perotte 7 3.78%
Delcan 17 9.19%
Marc Boutin 21 11.35%
Sturgess Architecture 47 25.41%
Infinity Engineering 69 37.30%
Arup & Kasian 36 19.46%
Arup & Falko Schmitt 1 0.54%
Arup & Frederick 2 1.08%
SPF with Arup (O-Bar) 9 4.86%
SPF with Arup (Glide) 53 28.65%
Rogers Stirk Harbour 4 2.16%
DeJong 8 4.32%
IBI 0 0%
CH2MHILL (option 1) 2 1.08%
Team IBHL 1 0.54%
RFR / Halsall 9 4.86%
Endres Ware & Amman Whitney 10 5.41%
Other (specify with post) 6 3.24%
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Old Posted Mar 29, 2012, 12:20 PM
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Ehh, it could not be actual waterfront, that would be exceedingly dangerous for swimming, add alot of liability to the city once a kid gets caught up in a current and goes over the weir. Not to mention any sand on the shore of a river like the Bow will be gone in about 10 minutes from the time they put it down ... I would skip a beach, it is not the right place for it at all.
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While I agree that a beach there would not work - it's not because of the current or wier. That part of the Bow has some of the lightest current in the city as the river is quite shallow there. Also, given that Harvey passage is done, I think it might even be fun to float from there to the old weir location!!

As for the river removing the sand, if you visit the section by the bridge out of the parking lot, there is an eddy bay that holds fine silt quite well, though not a place I would like to swim.

All that said, the Bow is not a beach river, unless it is like Sugar beach (Toronto) which I think would be better located downtown - perhaps by the PB??

Anyway, glad to see this progressing. I'm spending alot of time in this area along the river running this year and look forward to watching the improvement as Riverwalk is so far a massive hit.
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