The Victoria urban region has developed over 100 km of recreational trails along disused railway right-of-ways. A major gap in this system occurred at the Blenkinsop Lake where the original timber trestle had been demolished. This paper describes the public and engineering process in the planning and rebuilding of a new bridge (282 m long). A major influence was the impact of construction on the environment and protection of avia habitat and environmental monitoring was implemented. The constructor was required to construct the bridge from spans already completed and no mechanical equipment was allowed on the adjacent wetlands. Construction cost was $850,000. Opened in the fall of 2000, its use has exceeded the original projections. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting