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  1. Fairway Road Bridge
    Kitchener & Cambridge
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    2. #1
    UrbanWaterloo
    01-03-2010 02:30 AM
  2. Duck's Avatar
    From Kitchener | Member Since Dec 2011 | 89 Posts
    #41
    03-21-2012 08:18 PM
    Did that, it's all fenced off up-close...
  3. Member Since Oct 2010 | 34 Posts
    #42
    03-23-2012 05:14 PM
    Kitchener and Cambridge now meet.


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  5. Member Since Jan 2011 | 172 Posts
    #43
    03-23-2012 07:25 PM
    Note the beautiful simplicity of the design - post-tensioned concrete spanning the river. Easy to build, cheap, and without huge posts to support a suspension bridge. Love it.
  6. UrbanWaterloo's Avatar
    From Kitchener-Waterloo | Member Since Dec 2009 | 5,680 Posts
    #44
    05-06-2012 08:06 AM
    May 5, 2012







  7. From Kitchener | Member Since Oct 2010 | 791 Posts
    #45
    05-06-2012 10:19 AM
    Holy moley, it's a bridge!
  8. Member Since Oct 2011 | 28 Posts
    #46
    05-06-2012 08:34 PM
    Has the second span been started yet apart from the piers?
  9. Member Since Oct 2010 | 34 Posts
    #47
    05-06-2012 09:43 PM
    Nice shots, You take then from the Cambridge side and I'll take then from the Kitchener side. That will give us a good perspective.
  10. Waterlooer's Avatar
    From Waterloo, ON | Member Since Apr 2010 | 837 Posts
    #48
    05-06-2012 10:44 PM
    Does anyone know how many lanes this bridge will have. Maybe 4?
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  11. From Waterloo, ON | Member Since Jan 2010 | 1,977 Posts
    #49
    05-06-2012 11:43 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Waterlooer
    Does anyone know how many lanes this bridge will have. Maybe 4?
    Four lanes, plus two on-street bike lanes.

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  13. Member Since Oct 2010 | 34 Posts
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    05-08-2012 09:52 PM
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  14. Member Since Oct 2010 | 34 Posts
    #51
    05-08-2012 09:56 PM
    Fairway Rd from Pebblecreek Drive to Zeller Dr is now open for business..... finally no more heavy trucks down pebblecreek drive.

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  15. UrbanWaterloo's Avatar
    From Kitchener-Waterloo | Member Since Dec 2009 | 5,680 Posts
    #52
    07-02-2012 12:27 PM
    June 30, 2012





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  17. Member Since Oct 2011 | 28 Posts
    #53
    09-18-2012 04:29 PM
    From the Record: New Grand bridge just about ready
  18. Duck's Avatar
    From Kitchener | Member Since Dec 2011 | 89 Posts
    #54
    11-12-2012 10:00 PM
    Has anyone heard if the new bridge is still on track to open on Saturday?

    I've always wondered how a significant new section of road "opens" - at 5am or something do they just pull down the closed sign and that's that?

    -Iain
  19. Urbanomicon's Avatar
    From Kitchener, Ontario | Member Since Feb 2010 | 981 Posts
    #55
    11-13-2012 12:07 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by Duck
    Has anyone heard if the new bridge is still on track to open on Saturday?

    I've always wondered how a significant new section of road "opens" - at 5am or something do they just pull down the closed sign and that's that?

    -Iain
    They might do a christening ceremony for something like a bridge, but in general yes; it is usually that simple.
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  20. From waterloo | Member Since Sep 2012 | 86 Posts
    #56
    11-13-2012 11:06 AM
    http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/ge...NECLOSURES.pdf
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    From Kitchener | Member Since Dec 2011 | 89 Posts
    #57
    11-13-2012 12:18 PM
    Very nice, thanks for the link. So it looks like it will be open on Saturday, December 1?

    Presumably it could soft-open earlier, if the crews finished up a few days ahead of that date?

    -Iain
  22. From waterloo | Member Since Sep 2012 | 86 Posts
    #58
    11-13-2012 12:57 PM
    I'm not sure right now as it has been delayed several times now. As a resident of the area I am looking forward to it opening asap. Unfortunately, the city of Kitchener has not planned appropriately enough for the increase in traffic volume on Fairway. It is a single lane, and the intersection on River and Fairway roads is going to be a traffic nightmare once this bridge opens.
  23. From West-South-West Kitchener | Member Since May 2010 | 1,278 Posts
    #59
    11-13-2012 02:10 PM
    Is a single lane really a problem on an arterial like this? I believe that beyond about Morrison, Fairway is a true arterial - no driveways or access points, only having turns at other roads. Particularly on the bridge access, we have a roundabout at Zeller, unencumbered road to, over, and beyond the bridge, and another roundabout at Fountain. If no cars are turning, what benefit is there to a second lane?
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    Member Since May 2010 | 983 Posts
    #60
    11-13-2012 02:21 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by KevinL
    If no cars are turning, what benefit is there to a second lane?
    Speeding and unnecessary lane changing, of course.
    "I have always believed that what is originally an abuse does not cease to be one by having become customary."
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