{"id":2321,"date":"2007-09-23T12:13:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T16:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:52:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:52:40","slug":"the-bathurst-street-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/09\/23\/the-bathurst-street-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bathurst Street Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/images\/assets\/277341_3.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Spacing<\/em> Associate Editor Shawn Micallef has an essay about the Bathurst Street Bridge in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/article\/259501\">Toronto Star Ideas section<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The bridge is about as solid as anything in Toronto gets. Take a walk along it and hold onto the hand railing as a streetcar crosses the bridge. This is what Toronto feels like when the streetcars roll over its civic body: Hands vibrate from a direct connection to those heavy steel wheels, and when large trucks go by the bridge gently bounces and sways, making it seem awake, responsive, alive.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Structurally sound, the bridge suffers from lack of maintenance; up close the metal is rusty and the paint is flaking off in places. The iron hand railing is ornate and as solid as the rest of the bridge, but children would be wise not to run their hand along it, as they tend to do, lest they embed chunks of old Toronto in their soft hands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The underside of a bridge is as important as what&#8217;s on top, and this bridge designed to get us over the railway land is the best place to see that Toronto is still a rail town. The main span of the truss floats over 10 sets of tracks, a disconcertingly empty view looking east toward downtown.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the print edition there is also added historical material about this piece of Toronto infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Rene Johnston &amp; Toronto Star. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Associate Editor Shawn Micallef has an essay about the Bathurst Street Bridge in today&#8217;s Toronto Star Ideas section: The bridge is about as solid as anything in Toronto gets. Take a walk along it and hold onto the hand railing as a streetcar crosses the bridge. 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