Golden Ears Bridge
49.196513 - 122.665658Koordinaten: 49 ° 11 ' 47.4 " N, 122 ° 39' 56.4 " W
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The Golden Ears Bridge is a six-lane road bridge in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Planned, financed and built was the 976 m long crossing of the Fraser River from the German construction company Bilfinger Berger. Operator, realized with the help of a public-private partnership structure, the Golden Crossing General Partnership concession company for 32 years. The cost of the entire project to be introduced through tolls.
Construction
The bridge was built as Extradosed bridge with external piers. A total of 160 stay cables are routed via four pairs of piers to maintain the roadway. This consists of prefabricated, each 18 -ton precast concrete elements.
Related infrastructure
During the construction of the Golden Ears Bridge in addition access roads originated from two to six lanes and a total length of 13.3 km, to connect the bridge to the existing Straßeninfrastruktrur. In addition, local (fast ) roads have been expanded to a total length of 14.2 km, to cope with the increasing opening of the bridge with traffic. This included the construction of 16 small bridges.