Fairway Road Bridge

WaterlooInvestor · #1 Posted: **Nov 21, 2007, 9:36 AM**

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jeremy_haak · #2 Posted: **Nov 21, 2007, 2:45 PM**

Those councillors comparing a bowstring bridge on Fairway Rd to the Brooklyn Bridge are daft. If you want a signature bridge, you have to do better than that. Hire Santiago Calatrava or someone else who would actually design something that is a landmark and might actually have a chance of impacting a city. The bowstring bridge is about as plain and boring as the girder bridge they selected.

WaterlooInvestor · #3 Posted: **Jan 29, 2008, 7:17 PM**

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kwoldtimer · #4 Posted: **Jan 30, 2008, 3:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by jeremy_haak

Those councillors comparing a bowstring bridge on Fairway Rd to the Brooklyn Bridge are daft. If you want a signature bridge, you have to do better than that. Hire Santiago Calatrava or someone else who would actually design something that is a landmark and might actually have a chance of impacting a city. The bowstring bridge is about as plain and boring as the girder bridge they selected.

For a region never known for a strong concern for esthetics (be honest, how else to explain Kitchener!

), this seems a strange project for the powers to focus their decorating ideas on now. If it were downtown Galt, I could understand, but this is out in the boonies (relatively) and K-W has never had any real connection to the Grand River. Are they thinking the city will eventually expand to the east, making the bridge more prominent, I wonder?

kitchener-lrt · #5 Posted: **Jan 30, 2008, 3:54 AM**

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Are they thinking the city will eventually expand to the east, making the bridge more prominent, I wonder?

It should link the city with the airport, as well as provide a short-cut to Guelph (via the side roads).

WaterlooInvestor · #6 Posted: **Jan 30, 2008, 7:49 PM**

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kitchener-lrt · #7 Posted: **Jan 30, 2008, 10:05 PM**

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New Bridge Design: http://media.therecord.com/acrobat/4...1a8d1870d7.pdf

Nice, another round-a-bout. The pictures seem a bit funny, considering how there's so much pedestrian traffic out there.

WaterlooInvestor · #8 Posted: **Feb 7, 2008, 2:09 PM**

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WaterlooInvestor · #9 Posted: **Feb 7, 2008, 2:17 PM**

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Cambridgite · #10 Posted: **Feb 7, 2008, 2:32 PM**

I think Wideman is right. We only need one bike lane, not two. And what's this about rapid transit over the bridge

? There's no need for a rapid transit line there. Is Ken Seiling confused or am I?

koops65 · #11 Posted: **Feb 7, 2008, 8:18 PM**

Coun. Jean Haalboom of Kitchener should go and live in the tundra of the far north, all by herself... no need to worry about infrastructure there...

dunkalunk · #12 Posted: **Feb 7, 2008, 11:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cambridgite

I think Wideman is right. We only need one bike lane, not two. And what's this about rapid transit over the bridge

? There's no need for a rapid transit line there. Is Ken Seiling confused or am I?

As phase one of the rapid transit line would not likely be built until at least 2011, perhaps they are looking at the fairway road bridge as an access routing to Cambridge by way of Hespler Road as opposed to the railway/highway 8 routing that would take it by Preston. However, this routing is completely out of the way and is outside the EA. Plans for future (think 2030) expansion perhaps? I don't know. I still don't see why a rapid transit line wouldn't warrant its own bridge. I dunno...

kitchener-lrt · #13 Posted: **Feb 8, 2008, 8:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cambridgite

And what's this about rapid transit over the bridge

? There's no need for a rapid transit line there. Is Ken Seiling confused or am I?

I think they know that the RT line we're planning now will be so successful, that we'll start planning east-west lines, shortly after the mainline opens.

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Originally Posted by koops65

Coun. Jean Haalboom of Kitchener should go and live in the tundra of the far north, all by herself... no need to worry about infrastructure there...