This week Bill takes a look at some heritage bridges that take us way back
Road construction season is on. While waiting in line for the flag person to eventually give the stopped traffic the go-ahead with the fluorescent SLOW sign, waving back and forth. These are called traffic control paddles.
There remain a number of heritage bridges from the beginning of what we know now as our Trans Canada Highway. These are sometimes seen overgrown and lost in time as we speed by and utter: “there’s an old bridge!” Then came the Great Depression we took a major detour. Most of us cannot relate to the time when economic activity around the world came almost to a standstill, and road construction became important.
A Regional Issues and Media Advisor Ministry of Transportation Northeastern Region provided the following for this heritage bridge."Our estimate is that it was built in the 1920s and when the highway was realigned with the new culvert in the 1940s, the bridge was abandoned at that time. "If there was another organization or individual who was willing to potentially take the bridge on as a project, The Kensington Conservancy would certainly be open to having a conversation about that.”
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