Monthly Archives: July 2021
20210730. The colourful pedestrian bridge linking the North and South buildings of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (from 2018).
20210729. The Pennsylvania Railroad crossed the Erie Canal on this 1918 ‘warren through truss with all verticals’ bridge. Genesee Valley Park, Rochester.
20210728. Bridges of July #28. The Fredericton Railway Bridge (first train 1938, last 1996) turned Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge is 607 m long on the Trans Canada Trail (from 2016).
20210727. Bridges of July #27. Putting an underpass in scale #3. Road Bridge 054 (built 1956) – Royal York Road under Dundas Street West.
20210726. Bridges of July #26. A retro pedestrian bridge brightens the night. Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto (from 2014).
20210725. Bridges of July #25. A VIA train zooms over the dual CN Railway bridges at Gerrard St and Carlaw Ave.
20210724. Bridges of July #24. Under the O’Connor Drive Bridge over Taylor-Massey Creek.
20210723. Bridges of July #23. Into the mouth of the temporary bridge spanning the construction site of 100 Adelaide Street West in Toronto (from 2014).
20210722. Bridges of July #22. The pedestrian bridge over Finch Avenue from Old Cummer GO Station.
20210721. Bridges of July #21. The covered concrete and glass walkway along the Progress Avenue overpass above McCowan Ave.
20210720. Bridges of July #20. Vanishing down the pedestrian bridge to Toronto Pearson International Airport’s Terminal 1 Express Park Garage.
20210719. Bridges of July #19. A boy puts a railway underpass on Eglinton Avenue into scale.
20210718. Bridges of July #18. Under where Highway 427 splits into the Queen Elizabeth Way and the Gardiner Expressway.
20210717. Bridges of July #17. Under the six-span Mount Pleasant Road Bridge in Toronto’s Blythwood Ravine Park.
20210716. Bridges of July #16. The early ancestors of Star Wars Scout Walkers worked the railway lines of Earth lifting double leaf Bascule bridges. Over Welland Canal Lock 4.
20210715. Bridges of July #15. Toronto’s Cherry Street Strauss Trunnion Bascule Bridge in the Port Lands (from 2015).
20210714. Bridges of July #14. Going from the Skywalk to the Delta Toronto Hotel through the Torque pedestrian bridge.
20210713. Bridges of July #13. The long sleeved pedestrian bridge over Highway 401 from Pickering GO station to the Pickering Town Centre.
20210712. Bridges of July #12. The south-side ramp from Garrison Crossing which connects Fort York, the former Ordnance Triangle and Stanley Park.
20210711. Bridges of July #11. The Heath Street (or Cat’s Eye) bridge over the Moore Park Ravine, Mud Creek and the Beltline Trail.
20210710. Bridges of July #10. A sunbeam steals through spans of a box girder bridge under the Gardiner on the Humber River.
20210709. Bridges of July #9. A Mammoet self-propelled modular transport with 72 wheels supports the new Eaton Centre pedestrian bridge as it is fastened in place.
20210708. Bridges of July #8. ‘Night Truss’ and ‘Centre Span X’ on the Queen Street Viaduct.
20210707. Bridges of July #7. Heading west, here is the Peace Bridge over Calgary’s Bow River, designed by Santiago Calatrava, the architect behind Sam Pollock Square in Toronto’s Brookfield Place.
