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Clover Bar Bridge
Clover Bar Bridge
Coordinates53°34′17″N 113°22′21″W / 53.57139°N 113.37250°W / 53.57139; -113.37250
CarriesAlberta Highway 16 (Trans-Canada Highway)
CrossesNorth Saskatchewan River
LocaleEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Official name
  • Clover Bar Bridge
  • Beverly Bridge
History
Construction end
  • North span: 1953
  • South span: 1972
Statistics
Daily traffic64,092 (2023)
Location

Clover Bar Bridge and Beverly Bridge are a pair of bridges that span the North Saskatchewan River in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The twin spans carry 6 lanes total of Yellowhead Trail, the name given to Alberta Highway 16 within Edmonton city limits.

Clover Bar Bridge, the original truss span, was completed in the summer of 1953 and connected Beverly with mostly rural Strathcona County. Beverly was amalgamated with the City of Edmonton eight years later. Once the original span could no longer handle traffic volume, a steel girder bridge was built just to the south to carry eastbound traffic. This bridge, completed in 1972, is called the Beverly Bridge.

The Clover Bar Railway Bridge is just to the north of the original span. This 504-metre-long (1,654 ft) and 42-metre-high (138 ft) bridge was built in 1907–1908 as an iron and concrete truss by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway company and is still in use, carrying Canadian National Railway's main line.

See also

References

  1. "AAWDT". Google Docs. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  2. "Aug. 18, 1953: Premier Manning first to drive of Clover Bar Bridge". Edmonton Journal. Postmedia Network. August 18, 2012. Archived from the original on January 19, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
  3. Herzog, Lawrence (November 13, 2008). "When Beverly stepped into the big time". Real Estate Weekly. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
  4. Aubrey, Merrily K. (2004). Naming Edmonton: from Ada to Zoie. University of Alberta Press. p. 22. ISBN 0-88864-423-X. Beverly Bridge edmonton.
  5. "Alberta's largest railway bridges". Forth Junction Project. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
Preceded byThree pedestrian bridges Bridge across the
North Saskatchewan River 		Succeeded byClover Bar Railway Bridge
Preceded byCapilano Bridge Road bridge across the
North Saskatchewan River 		Succeeded byAnthony Henday Drive Highway Bridge


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