Wednesday, February 3, 2021

The Cushing Bridge in Calgary, Alberta

The Cushing+Bridge is a little like a typical narrow 4 lane bridge in backwards Vancouver. However, unlike Vancouver, Calgary built a 2 lane bus-bridge next to the 4 lane Cushing+Bridge. This is how properly dedicated bus lanes can be built next to an existing narrow BC type bridge. 

Calgary is the biggest city in Western Canada. Vancouver is a small city in area and has less than a million people. However, Greater Vancouver and the BC Lower_Mainland, almost has more people than Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg combined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary#Infrastructure

 http://albertaroads.homestead.com/Calgary/plans/BowTrail/BowTrailDToverview.jpg


http://albertaroads.homestead.com/Calgary/plans/BowTrail/memspur.jpg

http://albertaroads.homestead.com/Calgary/plans/index.html 

A 4 track freight train set of bridges in Calgary is no problem, but in Vancouver and the metropolitan region, most of the freight train bridges still only have a single track. By now the Greater Vancouver region should have double track freight bridges and double track commuter train bridges.


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