Port Mann Bridge

The Port Mann Bridge is a steel-tied arch bridge that spans the Fraser River connecting Coquitlam to Surrey  near Vancouver. The bridge consists of three spans with an orthotropic deck carrying five lanes of Trans Canada Highway traffic, with approach spans of three steel plate girders and concrete deck. The total length of the Port Mann is 2,093 m (6,867 ft), including approach spans. The main span is: 366 m (1,201 ft) plus the two 110 m (360 ft) spans on either side. Current volume on the bridge is 127,000 trips per day. Approximately eight percent of the traffic on the Port Mann bridge is truck traffic. The bridge is the longest arch bridge in Canada and 15th longest in the world.  Thanks to Wikipedia for this information and photo.

Aerial View

A Close Up of one end of one of the Spans

Beginning Saturday, Dec 1st, all lanes of the Port Mann will be open. It is a toll bridge and the fee is $3.00 each way.  However, as an introductory offer, there is a decal that you can have, once registered that will give twenty free trips until May 31st and thereafter, the cost will be $1.50 each way.  For Kendra, as she lives in Vancouver and works in Abbotsford, she will need to buy a monthly pass for $75.00 per month.  Fraser Valley residents are effectively ``cut off `from the city of Vancouver if they need to cross the Fraser R, or risk the heavy traffic in Langley and New Westminster. Cost??????   $3.3 billion Yikes!
Update:  This is the bridge that cost motorists millions in repairs after the "ice-bomb" incident.  Chunks of ice ffell from the bridge, damaging roofs and windshields of cars.  200 reported claims!  The engineers have some work to do!!!!!