I am sure it is just the camera angle, but it looks like that first section is cambered the wrong way, it appears to be sagging!
metalman.

It certainly took IDL long enough to do this. Surespan and the Dean Wood Consturction team would have done it in and have the deck on and ready for concrete.

The whole span looks a little wonky

Nice river! If you like access to rivers such as this you may well be concerned with new laws Gordo & Steveo are pushing through which would change the Navigable Waters Protection Act. These changes they want will deny public consultation on any projects they want to push through; which could severly limit any public access to these waters. Happy fishing!

wonder where they dumped the wooden part of the bridge, would have liked a piece of the old girl.

You will find large sections of the bridge at Richie Brothers auction yard for may 8th auction.

What a bunch of sidewalk superintendents we have in the crowd this morning. All the comments about how long its taking, what should have happened, and how much better someone else could have done it.

All coming from the comfort of your living rooms, with your thermostats set at 72 degrees Fahrenheit, while the guys working out there wonder why there's no gratitude from anybody anymore.

Well, you construction guys have to know there's people here that are grateful for the work you're doing, at times in unpleasant conditions, equipment that breaks down when you least expect it to, co-workers who may not have all the training or experience necessary, and uncertain futures. And even politics involved, sheesh.

Way to go! Keep up the good work! Its appreciated.

Hey "He Speaks" you are definelty intitled to your opinion however ignorant and missinformed it may be.Dean Wood And Suresapan are great contractors but comparing the Twining of the Simon Fraser bridge and the Cameron Street are two very different projects... If the tax payers wanted speed We could have paid a lot more and thus IDL would have been able to build a working bridge along side the old structure.

beesknees

It is not the sidewalk supers who determined that the bridge would be completed by now. Those who did are "knowledgeable" engineers and construction contractors, who also knew they were not building in southern California and were not building an overpass on dry land.

Sorry, man, you are sadly mistaken. Somethng held this thing up and, as usual, no one at City Hall is prepared to speak to what it was.

Congratulations to the people who worked through the colder than usual winter to get things done! I haven't heard of anybody or anything big falling in the river.

Let's look at the positive aspect of the new wider and safer span!

After all it is definitely a big improvement!

Why complain? The Navigable Waters Protection Act has nothing to do with the replacement of the bridge, neither do Campbell or Harper.

Sheesh.

My only comment about this is that all the years I've lived here in PG, I only used the foot bridge portion of it once. Wish I had done so a little more. Sorry just being a little sentimental....cheers.

From the Citizen, August 13th, 2008:

'The Cameron Street bridge will be open for traffic by the end of this year.
The contractor, IDL Projects has signed an agreement that the bridge will be completed no later than December 31st of 2008.

Manager of General Operations for the City, Bob Radloff says there is always a chance the bridge could be completed sooner “If we get ideal conditions we’ll do better than that date, if there’s adverse conditions, we don’t know for sure what effect that might have, but it might take them to December 31st to complete.”'

Posted by: diplomat on March 9 2009 11:00 AM
Congratulations to the people who worked through the colder than usual winter to get things done!"

Colder than usual winter?
I've been here since 1980 and this is by no means a colder than usual winter.

I am going to miss the old bridge. I traveled across it quite a bit back when it was open to vehicle traffic. I guess we need to get out of the way for progress. Not saying that having a new bridge is a bad thing just that its too bad that the old one couldn't be incorporated into a newer structure.

Bang on with the colder than usual lostfaith. Might be colder than usual over the last 10 years, but not over the previous several decades.

I think when it gets warm its going to melt all at once and then we will be in for a good freshet.

Some engineering questions..

How do you justify buliding a steel, concrete 2 lane bridge for modern load ratings and traffic volumes on piers that were engineered for a 1950's 1 lane wood bridge? Not to mention the new span will outlast the old piers which eventually will need to be replaced. I think a prudent engineer would have a hard time signing off on a a mickey mouse job like this.

I would imagine the "wonkiness" could be explained by the fact that the bridge is in the construction phase and not yet ready for log trucks???

Scott,nice talk. Grow up. There is no need for such language.

Actually the piers have been there for almost 80 years. The bridge was initially a two lane bridge. Modern dirvers needed more "elbow" room.

Building new bridges on old piers is nothing new.

Here is a "heritage" bridge over the Ohio River which was reconstructed to match the original bridge of 1911. The steel bridge lasted about 70 years, similar to our wooden trussed bridge. Both were built on the original piers. In fact, those piers might see several more bridge spans built on them.

http://www.sewickleyhistory.org/landmarks_bridge.shtml

Then we have this bridge in France http://www.dywidag-systems.com/en/references/details/article/pont-de-volonne-bridge-france.html

Built on the old piers is a beutiful new cable stayed bridge (would have been a nice structure over the Nechako and could have meant the removal of the central piers.

Thanks for the links gus. Cheers!

Why can't we build a bridge, such as that one built in France. Bring us into the 21'st century. 50 million dollar Art Centre money. Now that is a work of Art that no-one would tire of!

Don't forget the GTP train bridge across the Fraser, right here in dear old Prince George. It is what, 93 years old? And they did not go ahead with replacing the old Nechako bridge before checking out the integrity of the piers.
metalman.

where are they gonna hang the hot water pipes to thaw the ice dam?