[dowlingm]

Except some of the bridges in the Portlands are in for replacement/expansions of their own, given the upcoming changes.

AoD

There is at least one additional bridge planned though - the one at the east end of the Keating Channel.

 

[drum118]

There is at least one additional bridge planned though - the one at the east end of the Keating Channel.

None of the bridges plan for the Portland meet the need for this bridge in the first place or it too short. It may meet the Lake Shore need, but its only 4 lanes, not the plan 6 lanes.

Keating Channel has more than 1 bridge require for it.

Do you realize what will be require to move this bridge to the Portland or any where else???

Not the 30's with wide open space back then.

 

[dowlingm]

do you realize what will be require to move this bridge to the Portland or any where else???

Not the 30's with wide open space back then.

That's two dimensional thinking, Douglas Downer

 

[scrappyTO]

One of these days I'd like to get a photo of a GO Train, a new streetcar on the bridge, a red truck on the Gardiner, and a Porter plane departing to the east, but for now this cameraphone shot of the bridge in its rapidly changing neighbourhood...

 

[W. K. Lis]

One of these days I'd like to get a photo of a GO Train, a new streetcar on the bridge, a red truck on the Gardiner, and a Porter plane departing to the east, but for now this cameraphone shot of the bridge in it's rapidly changing neighbourhood...

... or Photoshop?

 

[interchange42]

It's been moved twice, actually. The first was from the Humber River to where it is now, more-or-less. The second was in 1931, when they pivoted and swung the bridge 30-some-odd degrees to the east.

Dan
Toronto, Ont.

Before the bridge was pivoted, it was also narrower. No streetcar tracks. When it was pivoted in 1931, it was widened and streetcar tracks added.

And no asphalt. That "luxury" item was added to the roadway after.

Those photos are from earlier in 1916, before the former Humber rail bridge was moved to Bathurst. The narrow bridge pictured has a rise in it, which the current Bathurst does not. (The current bridge is flat, as railroad bridges are.) The girders in the photos are also more slender, and not even arranged in the same pattern as the current Bathurst bridge.

42

 

[DSC]

It's moving ahead, slowly.

Request for Proposal

Call number: 9117-16-5036
Commodity: Professional Services, Engineering Services
Description: Design, Construction Administration & Post Construction Services for Bathurst Street Bridge.
Professional Services for Design, Construction Administration and Post Construction Services For Bathurst Street Bridges Rehabilitation and Replacement South of Front Street.
Issue date: March 23, 2016

Closing date: June 1, 2016
at 12:00 Noon
Revised
Notes: 2 Addenda

9117-16-5036 Viewing Copy.pdf (2103 Kbytes) - Posted on 03/23/2016 11:53:10 AM

9117-16-5036 Addendum 1.pdf (894 Kbytes) - Posted on 04/18/2016 04:16:49 PM

9117-16-5036 Addendum 2.pdf (132 Kbytes) - Posted on 04/26/2016 11:48:43 AM

 

[drum118]

MMM Group Limited was the wining bidder at $483,300.00 and was awarded a contract September 8, 2016

 

[Euphoria]

I'd like to know the bridge's orientation to the Rail Deck Park. If the RDP (and potentially the RER station beneath it) create a situation where the bridge doesn't really span anything, then what do we want it to be? Is it better to move it to where it could serve a necessary function as a bridge or will that function persist after the RDP is built? What will end up beneath it? There may still be a chasm to be bridged after the RDP of at least eight feet, in which case maybe something like a water feature would give the bridge renewed purpose. There's a lot to consider.

 

[PinkLucy]

MMM Group Limited was the wining bidder at $483,300.00 and was awarded a contract September 8, 2016

Any info on design, start date, etc?

 

[W. K. Lis]

Isn't the "official" name of the bridge, Sir Isaac Brock Bridge? See link.

Unless it's "bridges", plural. There is another bridge just south of the Sir Isaac Brock bridge, which is a continuation of the steel truss bridge, but not using steel truss.

 

[smallspy]

I'd like to know the bridge's orientation to the Rail Deck Park. If the RDP (and potentially the RER station beneath it) create a situation where the bridge doesn't really span anything, then what do we want it to be? Is it better to move it to where it could serve a necessary function as a bridge or will that function persist after the RDP is built? What will end up beneath it? There may still be a chasm to be bridged after the RDP of at least eight feet, in which case maybe something like a water feature would give the bridge renewed purpose. There's a lot to consider.

But it will continue to span something if the park gets built - the railway tracks that will continue to run below it.

The Rail Deck Park is not going to eliminate the fact that there will still be railway tracks underneath, it will just simply offer them a shelter that will then allow the park itself. And for that reason the park will have to be built as a bridge (or more likely, a series of parallel bridges).

Dan
Toronto, Ont.

 

[BurlOak]

Isn't the "official" name of the bridge, Sir Isaac Brock Bridge? See link.

Unless it's "bridges", plural. There is another bridge just south of the Sir Isaac Brock bridge, which is a continuation of the steel truss bridge, but not using steel truss.

It's "Bridge"

It's a multi-span through truss bridge, being named after its predominant span.

Garden City Skyway is one bridge.
Burlington Bay Skyway (named after former Minister Allen?) is 2 bridges. The 1950's arch shaped through truss and the parallel cast-in-place balanced cantilever post-tensioned bridge.

 

[Johnny Au]

It's "Bridge"

It's a multi-span through truss bridge, being named after its predominant span.

Garden City Skyway is one bridge.
Burlington Bay Skyway (named after former Minister Allen?) is 2 bridges. The 1950's arch shaped through truss and the parallel cast-in-place balanced cantilever post-tensioned bridge.

Hoggs Hollow must be a set of four bridges then.

 

[BurlOak]

Hoggs Hollow must be a set of four bridges then.

Yes, but. . .

The 1929 bridge deck truss was connected to the 1959 deck truss bridge in 2000. I would say it (they) technically counts as 3.