Granville Street Bridge
49.27255 - 123.13300555556Koordinaten: 49 ° 16 ' 21.2 "N, 123 ° 7' 58.8 " W
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Highway 99
The Granville Street Bridge is a truss bridge of steel in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It bridges the False Creek and connects it with Vancouver Downtown Vancouver. For most of its length ( about 90 %) actually performing the bridge over land and only a small part above water. Part of the land route, the Granville Iceland is at the southern end, she spans.
The bridge is heavily traveled because of them the Highway 99 leads.
History
The first bridge at this location was opened in 1889 and was a 732 meter long, wooden trestle bridge. As a second bridge at this point then in 1909 a steel swing bridge was opened. In 1954, the second bridge was replaced by the current, third Granville Street Bridge.
Trivia
The third Granville Street Bridge was at its opening, the widest bridge in North America, surpassing the previously widest bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge, by only an inch.
The first person, according to the official figures, which crossed the third bridge at the opening in a car that was a woman. The same woman had also been the second bridge as the first person in a car, according to the officials, crosses.