Peace Bridge | 131 Meter Span | Completed - Page 52

freeweed · #**1021** Posted **Oct 13, 2010, 5:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Bigtime

I was up on the Crescent Heights hill on Sunday and it was looking very good, I would guess just short of 1/3 of the length has been assembled.

Yeah, I get a good view from the LRT twice a day and it looks hella cool. Yeah, I said hella, big whoop, wanna fight about it?

CorporateWhore · #**1022** Posted **Oct 13, 2010, 5:34 PM**

Considering all the broohaha, I'm a little disappointed at the lack of photo saturation relating to the construction of this thing. I was expecting our wonderful CP photographers to snap it from every frickin' angle by now. In the words of Stephanie Tanner...how rude!

jeffwhit · #**1023** Posted **Oct 13, 2010, 6:02 PM**

^^right now its actually kind of tricky to get a good shot of it. The best view comes when riding the train over the bridge.

MonctonGoldenFlames · #**1024** Posted **Oct 13, 2010, 7:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by jeffwhit

^^right now its actually kind of tricky to get a good shot of it. The best view comes when riding the train over the bridge.

or the pedestrian bridge below it!

jeffwhit · #**1025** Posted **Oct 13, 2010, 11:12 PM**

^^Oh yeah? I tried last week and couldn't really find a useful angle with my cheap point-and shoot, bu maybe now that the bridge is pushing out onto the construction platform... Someone like Surreal, Ramsay, Bigtime or Witty, with a camera and the actual skills to use it should be out there.

kw5150 · #**1026** Posted **Oct 22, 2010, 3:24 PM**

Well, just as many thought, the peace bridge is starting to get that "defy gravity" look to it. I love this thing, It has no supports so it looks like it will just bend in half when the temporary bridge is removed...... certainly another winner for calatrava.

oldschoolcalgary · #**1027** Posted **Oct 22, 2010, 3:43 PM**

i would imagine there is a possibility of a final coat of paint too; doesn't make a lot of sense to ship it from spain with the finish coat on, especially since the final assembly happens here...

Ramsayfarian · #**1028** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 3:29 AM**

They're going to have to paint the bridge at least once. I still think that's the main reason for the tent. If it just for welding, I don't think the tent would need to be so long.

Here's a photo that I took tonight.

Peace Bridge by Ramsayfarian, on Flickr

CorporateWhore · #**1029** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 3:38 AM**

Great photo....starting to come together really nicely. I wonder if the white portion of the bridge is still a go, or if it's all red now? I definitely hope so, I thought that was one of the nicer elements of the bridge.

Witty Nickname · #**1030** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 4:18 AM**

Nice shot RF!

Dylan Leblanc · #**1031** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 6:42 AM**

Oh wow I thought this bridge was just a pipe dream. It's great to see it's actually getting built.

Bigtime · #**1032** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 1:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dylan Leblanc

Oh wow I thought this bridge was just a pipe dream. It's great to see it's actually getting built.

Pun?

Great shot Ramsay, this baby is coming together nicely!

Calgarian · #**1033** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 4:43 PM**

How much of it is assembled already?

CorporateWhore · #**1034** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 4:57 PM**

Can't wait to see a photo of this thing set against the river/skyline to get a proper sense of scale and impact. It's gonna be a beaut.

mersar · #**1035** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 4:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

How much of it is assembled already?

Close to 1/2 is my estimate.

freeweed · #**1036** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by mersar

Close to 1/2 is my estimate.

This thing is gonna be HUGE. If only half is done so far... wow. I see it every day and it's sick just how awesome this bridge is.

shreddog · #**1037** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 5:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sir.Humphrey.Appleby

... it would likely be shipped through Montreal - or I guess even all the way to Thunder Bay.

I know that this is a bit OBE, but the picture is cool nonetheless and it confirms that the bridge was shipped to T Bay and then trucked here.

MarkL · #**1038** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 8:22 PM**

I too can confirm the truckinesss of the transportation, as I ran into (nearly) two more bridge segments turning left from 9th ave sw to 6th st northbound this morning at 4:30 a.m.

I even took crappy cell phone video!

kw5150 · #**1039** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 9:55 PM**

Where is the video? just kidding.

I still cant imagine that bridge being self supporting. It looks SO heavy. It looks like it will just fold in half once theey take the temp bridge away. What a great design. Cant wait to cross this thing.

mooky · #**1040** Posted **Oct 28, 2010, 10:00 PM**

Don't forget they are adding probably thousands of pounds worth of concrete for the decking ... Let's hope fancy-pants Calatrava's engineering math is right!