Toronto is rebuilding the northern part of their port area into more downtown (office, retail, residential, recreational) space, but it appears they are leaving the ship channel as an industrial space.
Historic Bridges reports that the trunnion bridge was replaced as part of the 2013 rehabilitation.
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It looks like a good sized boat is docked on the right.
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| Jonathan Konopka posted This is the Cherry Street Bridge in Toronto, Ontario. It is a bascule bridge that was built in 1930 and carries Cherry Street over the Toronto Harbour Shipping Channel. |
I got the 1930 build date from HistoricBridges. So is this 1918 date a different Strauss bridge?
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| Bridges Now and Then posted Toronto's Cherry Street Bridge, 1918. A Joseph Strauss design, it was built by Dominion Bridge Company. (City of Toronto Archives) |
2 of 7 photos posted by Alan Wechsler with the comment: "Busy day out here. 25 minutes after the Marine Unit blew past me and just 34 minutes post-Sterling Energy’s passage THIS big beauty shoehorned through the Cherry Street narrows at the lift bridge. Algoma Innovator is awfully maneuverable; they wheeled her about further east in the dinky turning basin near Leslie Street before firing her arrow-straight down the channel. Amazing. Video was too long to post but here are some stills, with the last one showing the tiny RCYC launch Hiawatha waiting patiently beyond the propwash. At 71’ and 47 GT Kwasind isn’t all that small…but when 650’LOA and 19,851GT come out to play it’s a whole different ballgame."
[The comments include a 2:44 video of this passage.]
John Putnam: For a newer boat, it sure got banged up fast.
Alan Wechsler: John Putnam Constant transit through locks will do that. When Viking sent its then-new Polaris cruise ship on its very first Great Lakes trip the entire ship was a gleaming white.
When she returned to Toronto two weeks later she had over 600’ of hull needing paint. And that’s exactly what they did as passengers disembarked that cruise and passenger embarked later in the day for the next loop.
At a thousand bucks a night per person (based on double occupancy) there might be a few bucks left over for paint every round trip.
Not these hardworking lakers.
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