Alex Fraser Bridge

Alex Fraser Bridge
Alex Fraser Bridge
Coordinates	49°09′35″N 122°56′34″W / 49.1598°N 122.9428°W / 49.1598; -122.9428
Carries	Seven lanes of British Columbia Highway 91, pedestrians and bicycles
Crosses	South Arm Fraser River
Locale	Delta, BC
Owner	British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
Characteristics
Design	cable-stayed bridge
Material	Steel & Reinforced concrete
Total length	2,525 m (8,284 ft)
Width	32 m (105 ft)
Height	154 m (505 ft)
Longest span	465 m (1,526 ft)
No. of spans	45
Clearance below	57 m (187 ft)
History
Designer	Buckland & Taylor
Construction start	1983
Construction cost	$58 million
Opened	September 22, 1986
Statistics
Daily traffic	119,000[1]
Location
References
structurae.de[2] Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure[3]

The Alex Fraser Bridge (also known as the Annacis Bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge over the Fraser River that connects Richmond and New Westminster with North Delta in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia. The bridge is named for Alex Fraser, a former British Columbia Minister of Transportation. The bridge was the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world when it opened on September 22, 1986, and was the longest in North America until the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, in the U.S. state of South Carolina, opened in 2005.