Clover Bar Bridge Explained

Bridge Name:Clover Bar Bridge
Carries:Alberta Highway 16 (Trans-Canada Highway)
Crosses:North Saskatchewan River
Locale:Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Traffic:64,092 (2023)[1]
Coordinates:53.5714°N -113.3725°W

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.[2] [3] [4]

The Clover Bar Railway Bridge is just to the north of the original span. This 504adj=midNaNadj=mid and 42adj=midNaNadj=mid 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.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: AAWDT . Google Docs . August 8, 2024.
  2. Web site: Aug. 18, 1953: Premier Manning first to drive of Clover Bar Bridge . https://archive.today/20130119021856/http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=0dceaf28-8c90-4588-b603-3de6b06ccc01 . dead . January 19, 2013 . Edmonton Journal . Postmedia Network . August 18, 2012 . November 27, 2012 .
  3. Web site: When Beverly stepped into the big time . https://archive.today/20130115143234/http://www.rewedmonton.ca/content_view_rew?CONTENT_ID=2384 . dead . January 15, 2013 . Herzog, Lawrence . Real Estate Weekly . November 13, 2008 . November 27, 2012 .
  4. Book: Aubrey, Merrily K. . Naming Edmonton: from Ada to Zoie . registration . Beverly Bridge edmonton. . 2004 . University of Alberta Press . 22 . 0-88864-423-X.
  5. Web site: Alberta's largest railway bridges. Forth Junction Project. English. 11 October 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20110711020530/http://www.forthjunction.com/railway-bridges-alberta.htm. 11 July 2011. dead.