Calgary's 12th Street S.E. bridge replacement unveiled
原始发布日期： 2015-12-03 发布者：中和字变大 字变小
$19M replacement will be safer, flood resistant, easier to maintain, city says 12th Street S.E. bridge replacement, artist rendering (City of Calgary) An arched steel box girder design has been chosen to replace the 12th Street S.E. bridge and the city says it will be wider, safer, flood resistant and easier to maintain.The $19 million replacement was released at a public information session Wednesday. Katherine Hikita is the project manager. 
Katherine Hikita is the 12th Street S.E. bridge replacement project manager. (CBC) She says talk of replacing the bridge that spans the Bow River between Inglewood and the Calgary Zoo began three years ago."The old bridge was actually built for horse and buggy. It was never really intended for cars," Hikita said. 
12th Street S.E. bridge, Calgary (City of Calgary) "It has outlasted and outperformed what the original expectations would have been." Construction will begin next year with a completion date pegged for 2017, weather permitting. Hikita says currently the city is preparing contract documents and working on finer details. "Our next step is going to a tender and getting a contractor on board," she said. The city plans to commemorate the original bridge with public input if it can be salvaged when it's taken down. About 8,000 vehicles cross the bridge daily, according to 2012 data but truck traffic has been banned since the 2013 flood. |