Good News In History, November 14
Good News In History, November 14 86 years ago today, the Lion’s Gate Bridge opened in Vancouver. Crossing the Burrard Inlet, the total length of the bridge including the north viaduct is 5,981 feet (1,823 meters), with the length of the main span alone exceeding 1,500 feet. It forms part of Highways 1A and 99, and total traffic averages 60,000 cars a day. The name “Lion’s Gate” is taken from the pair of cast concrete lions at the entrance of the bridge, and the name was taken by Lionsgate Films of Hollywood. READ about how the bridge was made… (1938) Lion’s Gate Bridge – CC 3.0. Tom Richards Alfred James Towle Taylor, an engineer with an interest in creating a bridge from the First Narrows to the North Shore, managed to convince the Guinness family of Dublin, Ireland to invest in the project. The bridge was designed by the Montreal firm Monsarrat and Pratley, which was later responsible for the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, using a similar design. With a plebiscite v…
