Here's what the bottom of Esquimalt Road looks like now. The new blacktop (that curvy bit in roughly the centre of the photo) looks like it will serve as the on-ramp to the old blue bridge. There used to be a bit of a hill there that is now a gentle rise. The new bridge is being constructed out of sight to the left of the old bridge and when completed this new bit of road will just be straightened out to lead onto the new bridge. It looks good and definitely clears up a lot of the bad sight-lines that have been traditional at that intersection where it curves around under the railroad overpass. As for the new bridge itself - it appears that due to some engineering problem it has been postponed once again for another six months - now scheduled for completion a few years from now.
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It amazes me that bigger bridges were built in the 1930s in less time than it takes to build small bridges in modern times. I'm still sad that the blue bridge is going to be disassembled and removed.
A lot of work going on there. We have a debacle going on here involving a pedestrian bridge that was supposed to have been finished a couple of years ago, and they still have no idea when it'll get done. The company that started it screwed up the first one completely, and most of it had to be razed.
It will be nice when it is completed.
Today I drove across the new road into town. Very exciting, I had to savour the moment!
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