Golden Ears Bridge

Golden Ears Bridge
use	Road bridge
Crossing of	Fraser River
place	Langley , Maple Ridge
construction	Extradosed bridge
overall length	976 m
Longest span	each 242 m in the three main openings
height	80 m
Headroom	40 m
building-costs	CAD 1 billion ( € 800 million )
start of building	April 2006
opening	June 16, 2009
construction time	3 years
Client	TransLink
toll	no
	location
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	Location of the Golden Ears Bridge and the access roads (red) in the region's transport network

49.196513 -122.665658Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 47 " N , 122 ° 39 ′ 56" W.

The Golden Ears Bridge is a six-lane road bridge in the Canadian province of British Columbia . The 976 m long crossing of the Fraser River was planned, financed and built by the German construction company Bilfinger Berger . The operator of the structure, which was realized with the help of a public-private partnership , is the Golden Crossing General Partnership concession company for a total of 32 years . The cost of the entire project should be recovered through tolls. Due to changed political framework conditions, the toll obligation was abolished early on 31 August 2017.

construction

The bridge was built as an extradosed bridge with external pillars . A total of 160 stay cables are run over four pairs of piers to hold the roadway. This consists of prefabricated, respectively 18 t heavy reinforced concrete components .

Associated infrastructure

In the course of the construction of the Golden Ears Bridge, additional access roads with two to six lanes and a total length of 13.3 km were created to connect the bridge to the existing road infrastructure. In addition, municipal (high-speed) roads were expanded over a total of 14.2 km in order to cope with the increasing volume of traffic with the opening of the bridge. This also included the construction of 16 smaller bridges.

and display information about the image

Panoramic shot of the Golden Ears Bridge

Web links

Commons : Golden Ears Bridge - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Private sector € 600 million project in Canada. Bilfinger, March 14, 2006, accessed on September 8, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k data and report on roadtraffic-technology.com (engl.)
↑ Information page of Bilfinger Project Investments GmbH
↑ Tolls to be eliminated on Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges. cbc, August 25, 2017, accessed September 8, 2019 .

[Bilfinger-1] Private sector € 600 million project in Canada. Bilfinger, March 14, 2006, accessed on September 8, 2019 .

[Roadtraff-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k data and report on roadtraffic-technology.com (engl.)

[3] Information page of Bilfinger Project Investments GmbH

[4] Tolls to be eliminated on Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges. cbc, August 25, 2017, accessed September 8, 2019 .