ntt1
Active Member
Ah, so the same one that's been in place for the last year (wasn't sure if the construction on the WB side would change it). Yeah, will probably continue to avoid that area until the new bridge is complete....
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J_gordo
Active Member
Good plan- rush hour traffic on the bridge is catastrophic
MacLac
Senior Member
Has anyone heard any rumblings about the tendering of the NEW overpass construction at the Henday? Plans say it "should start construction this year."
Airboy
Senior Member
Nothing that I heard and no Provincial or Federal money.
MacLac
Senior Member
Well we know Danni is putting money on it this year as per this:
www.edmonton.ca
Terwillegar Drive Expansion - Stage Three | City of Edmonton
Stage Three includes road widening, Terwillegar Drive and Anthony Henday Drive Interchange upgrades, dedicated transit lanes and a shared-use pathway.
Xtend
New Member
According to those plans, it doesn't look like a third lane is being added to WMD Eastbound as it curves below Terwillegar - is that actually the case?
YEG imagineer
Active Member
Two long bridge pieces are now on the Rainbow bridge. Probably for the car portion and not the pedestrian bridge based on their lengths
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YEG imagineer
Active Member
Steel mostly up on Friday and final western piece put up this morning.
J_gordo
Active Member
Looking forward to seeing the multi-use path steel being erected
MacLac
Senior Member
An additional lane of traffic supported by 1 girder on skinny piers? Seems so backwards that the path piers are 3X the size as the lane piers.......
thommyjo
Senior Member
Maybe being supported by existing ones as they’re connected and sharing loads? Vs the MUP being on its own?
dkazzed
Active Member
If I had to take a stab at being a structural engineer, the existing piers can handle the additional shear forces so the additional pier only has to deal with compressive forces vs. the MUP piers have to deal with compressive and shear forces which was calculated to be greater than compressive forces.
YEG imagineer
Active Member
This is the path on the east side of Rainbow Valley bridge. The pedestrian lights were installed a few weeks ago. This looks so awful. Did whoever designed these lights actually walk the route. Would have been so much cheaper and visually better just leaving the street lights alone or adding an attachment on the back side of the streetlights to shine on the path. Now it's a lots of poles doing the same thing as many are directly beside one another.
EdmTrekker
Senior Member
Was that handled by the City or Province?
IanO
Superstar
They wanted it to match 102 Avenue.