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for improving the Lions Gate
Bridge traffic capacity was to ex-
pand the deck by adding two lanes
outside the existing walkway.

Another expansion plan entailed
adding another deck, one for each
direction making the bridge similar

American cities.

“They are constantly looking at
(bridge. improvements),’’ said
Tucker Forsyth, district highways
manager. ‘But there’s nothing be-
ing...actively pursued.’’

At the other end of the inlet is
the Second Narrows

own that includes some far-
reaching proposals for the cross-
ing.

The first serious proposal for a
bridge at Second Narrows —
where the delta of the Lynn and
Seymour rivers narrows the inlet
— was made back in 1914.

cars cross Second

was proposed, but proved too am-
bitious; a smaller bridge was built
— and rebuilt as it was often in
trouble with shipping.

A dam and two sets of locks
were suggested in 1916 to ease the
bridging problem and turn the up-
per harbor into a freshwater lake.

nel and Bridge Co. revamped the
1914 proposal and built a bridge,
but it turned out to be too low — a
barge got stuck underneath and
dumped the span as the vessel rose
with the incoming tide.

Four years went by while the
bridge was redesigned and rebuilt.

Bridge,

In 1956, construction on what is
now the present bridge began, with
the span finished in 1960 after be-
ing halted by the collapse of the
north anchor arm.

Today an average of 95,000 cars
cross the Second Narrows Bridge a
day, but it’s not the bridge traffic
volume that causes hold-ups, it’s
the overtaxed on- and off-ramps.

“Second Nasrows certainly isn’t
at capacity,’’ noted Forsyth. ‘On
the structure itself we’ve got a
number of years to go’’ before
reaching capacity.

Vancouver-bound commuters
know that traffic bottles up at
Cassiar and Hastings, putting the
junction at the top of future road
improvement projects.

to those common in many newer, but with a history of its A combined road and rail span In 1925, the Burrard Inlet Tun-

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