Ongoing Calgarians complaining about pedestrian bridges thread

[MrMastodonFarm]

Once that temporary bridge is removed... man, gonna be sweet.

[Tyler]

$25 Million is an insignificant amount of money for a piece of infrastructure which will likely be an iconic piece of Calgary for years to come.

I LOVE IT

[puckluck]

Can we change the title to "New Pedestrian Bridge To Be Crappy...Like The Flames.."

[Bigtime]

Unlike the Flames the bridge has gotten better under "rebuilding".

[Ducay]

Hopefully once that temp bridge is removed people will realize how incredibly ridiculously amazingly awesome the design is; based solely on the fact that it can span the entire thing without piers and not be a gigantic cable/arch suspension bridge.

[Northendzone]

It would be awesome if for once a city project could come in under budget.....I personally think they lowball the initial price and once it is too late the real price comes out.....

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Ducay

Hopefully once that temp bridge is removed people will realize how incredibly ridiculously amazingly awesome the design is; based solely on the fact that it can span the entire thing without piers and not be a gigantic cable/arch suspension bridge.

I bet there are a whole slew of people out there who think that temporary construction bridge is part of the final design, and have no idea it's going to be removed.

[Bigtime]

The final move is supposed to start today:

Originally Posted by Druh Farrell

Peace Bridge being prepared for the launch (must be perfectly parallel) & may commence later today. Expected to take 5 to 6 hours

[ken0042]

OK, now I'm mad. We spent $25M on a bridge; and now they want it to be parallel? Nobody will be able to use it if it's parallel; never mind that I don't see how it won't fall into the water.

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

The final move is supposed to start today:

Please don't fall into the river. I don't want to see the "Rick Bell Weir".

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

The final move is supposed to start today:

I'm getting some final movement just thinking about it.

[Titan]

Thanks for another good pic.

I think with the temp bridge it actually looks like an incredibly cool LRT train going over a bridge.

Originally Posted by Regulator75

I swung by the bridge today and took a few pics, here's one looking North.



The Peace Bridge by Witty nickname, on Flickr

[Bigtime]

Drove by it last night, looks like the move didn't happen as it was still over the temporary bridge.

[Madman]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

The final move is supposed to start today:

Originally Posted by Druh Farrell
Peace Bridge being prepared for the launch (must be perfectly parallel) & may commence later today. Expected to take 5 to 6 hours

I'm pretty certain Druh thinks it's a spaceship.

[Bigtime]

Druh just tweeted that the lateral move is complete. Condolences to all those that were hoping it would fall into the river during this.

[St. Pats]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Druh just tweeted that the lateral move is complete. Condolences to all those that were hoping it would fall into the river during this.

So where is our pic then?

[Bigtime]

Haven't seen one on the interwebs yet.

[Slava]

Maybe you need an underwater camera?

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Slava

Maybe you need an underwater camera?

OMG an underwater bridge would have been so badass.

[Joborule]

Originally Posted by Sliver

OMG an underwater bridge would have been so badass.

Paging Nenshi.