GEB bridge opening-cyclists & cars
For those living in British Columbia and to our friends south of us on the Northwest Coast in the U.S., there will be the opening of the Golden Ears Bridge in Langley, a suburb south of Vancouver. Bridge is approx. 20 kms. or less north of the Canada-U.S. border.
There will be a media and community bridge completion celebration event on Sunday, June 14/09. Pedestrian traffic only. Construction activity is madly going along to meet serious deadlines. (I used to work for them.)
So far the bridge will open for traffic in July 2009. The lst month is intended to be free to cars. Thereafter there will be a toll for cars to use it. There will be separated cycling lane in both directions on this 1 km. long road bridge.
http://goldenearsbridge.ca/upload/im...wsSpring09.pdf The dotted blue line that you see on the map on pg. 3 (and new highway approaches), indicates the continuation of cycling path/lane.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/tri_city_.../41709657.html
New bridge is close the Golden Ears Regional Park...which you can google or find in Wikipedia info. Yea, I would see the mountains from afar when at work.. bears do come down from the wilderness and mountain occasionally. Whole area is near major pacific annual salmon runs.