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Old 09-18-2020, 12:44 PM   #3607
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Originally Posted by Lil Pedro View Post
The WB bridge is an absolute nightmare in the afternoon rush, especially the far right lane as the bridge shrinks down from 3 lanes to 2 lanes before the Sundance overpass
Yeah but the 2 lane crunch happens well after the river and there's room for 5 lanes under the Sundance bridge, so that would mostly fix it. Just from a cost-benefit perspective it's a very expensive pre-emptive fix.

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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101 View Post
maybe there's more about the 22x bridge status than we know.
This is the document that I cherrypicked the dates from. It has info on every highway bridge in Alberta, I'm looking for detailed info but haven't found anything yet. At the bottom of page 197 It has the EB bridge at a 27.8% structure rating in a 2019 inspection - the Deerfoot bridges (Calf Robe/Ivor Strong) built a few years later are at 55% and 66%. A quick scroll up and down the lists shows not much else with a structure rating that bad, so we can maybe assume that is the reason. Maybe between 1974 and 1978 we learned how to build bridges better.
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