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Circle Drive Bridge 
Circle Drive BridgeOfficial name Circle Drive Bridge Carries 6 lanes of Circle Drive Crosses South Saskatchewan River Locale Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Maintained by City of Saskatoon Design Girder bridge Material Reinforced concrete, steel Total length 275 metres (902 ft) Number of spans 4 Piers in water 3 Opened Jul 1, 1983
(widening completed September 28, 2007)Coordinates 52°9′12.87″N 106°38′5.06″W / 52.153575°N 106.6347389°WCoordinates: 52°9′12.87″N 106°38′5.06″W / 52.153575°N 106.6347389°W Circle Drive Bridge spans the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada. It is a steel girder bridge, built in 1983 as part of the Circle Drive freeway system in northeast Saskatoon. At the time of construction, it cost $11.8 million to build.[1] It is presently the northernmost bridge in the city, and the most recently built.
As with other bridges in the city, locals use several different names for this bridge. During construction there was an unsuccessful campaign to have it named after recently-deceased former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Longtime Saskatonians also refer to it as the 42nd Street Bridge, a reference to a former name of the northern east-west leg of Circle Drive dating back to the 1960s; this name was also commonly applied to the bridge in media coverage of its planning and construction.
The Circle Drive Bridge is a twin span bridge; was designed so that more lanes could be added by filling in the centre. Early published plans for the bridge called for the addition of an observation deck/interpretive centre to the underside of the bridge at that point. However, rather than widening the bridge by filling in the centre gap, it was deemed to be more cost effective to convert the outside pedestrian walkways into driving lanes. In 2006, construction started on adding a third outside lane in both directions to increase capacity and ease congestion during peak traffic times. The lane additions were completed in 2007. A new pedestrian walkway was built below and between the two bridge structures, and opened in July 2007.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "City of Bridges" (PDF). City of Saskatoon. http://www.saskatoon.ca/DEPARTMENTS/Infrastructure%20Services/Transportation/TransportationPlanning/Documents/city_of_bridges.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
- ^ Zacaruk, Jim; Mike Gutek (2008). "Circle Drive Widening" (PDF). Stantec Consulting/City of Saskatoon. http://www.tac-atc.ca/english/resourcecentre/readingroom/conference/conf2008/docs/h1/zacaruk.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
Categories:- Bridges completed in 1983
- Bridges in Saskatoon
- Road bridges in Saskatchewan
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