Queen Street Viaduct
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Queen Street Viaduct
Artist
Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
The Queen Street Viaduct (usually known as the Queen Street Bridge) in Toronto, Canada carries vehicles and Toronto Transit Commission streetcars along Queen Street East and across the Don River. It is an example of a Pratt truss. The bridge is at least the third bridge over the Don River at this location, the first operated by the Scadding family in the early 1800s (One of the early bridges was a wooden bridge built in 1803. The current steel Truss bridge was built in 1911 by Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company of Darlington, England. he construction of this bridge eliminated a grade-level railway crossing on the west bank of the river.The bridge was renovated in the 1990s and public art was added. At the top of the western side of the bridge is a piece of public art created in 1996 by Eldon Garnet.
The art work on the bridge by Eldon Garnet consisted of a clock and is still in function after maintenance. The phrase "THIS RIVER I STEP IN IS NOT THE RIVER I STAND IN", taken from the philosophy of Heraclitus,is inscribed in large letters overarching the road. The bridge art is one part of a three site art piece, with the second part as words inscribed on the pavement at the intersections of Broadview Avenue and Queen Street, and the last part as four metal "banners" at Queen and Degrassi Street
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©2015 Lingfai Leung
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September 26th, 2015
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