Granville Street Bridge
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 21 ″ N , 123 ° 7 ′ 59 ″ W.
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| use | Road bridge (eight lanes) with pedestrian and cycle paths on both sides | |
| Convicted | Highway 99 | |
| Crossing of | False Creek | |
| place | Vancouver | |
| construction | Truss bridge | |
| overall length | 1171.06 m | |
| height | 27.40 m | |
| building-costs | C $ 16.5 million | |
| start of building | September 1951 | |
| opening | 4th February 1954 | |
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The Granville Street Bridge is a steel truss bridge in the Canadian province of British Columbia . It bridges False Creek and connects Vancouver with Downtown Vancouver. Most of its length (around 90%) the bridge is over land and only a small part is actually over water. Part of the land stretch at the southern end that it spans is Granville Island .
The bridge is busy because Highway 99 crosses it .
history
The first bridge at this location opened in 1889 and was a 732 meter long wooden trestle bridge . As the second bridge at this point, a steel swing bridge was opened in 1909 . In 1954, the second bridge was replaced by the current, third Granville Street Bridge.
Trivia
The third Granville Street Bridge was the widest bridge in North America when it opened and exceeded the widest bridge to date, the Brooklyn Bridge , by just an inch.
The first person, according to officials, to cross the third bridge in a car when it opened was a woman. The same woman had already crossed the second bridge as the first person in a car after the officials.