The Old Eastern Avenue Bridge is actually two bridges spanning the Don River in Toronto, Canada. The southern Truss bridge is unused but once carried traffic on Eastern Avenue. The north bridge is a concrete arch bridge and is used by Enbridge Gas to carry a major gas main and the south a Truss bridge similar to Queen Street Viaduct and Bathurst Street Bridge.
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Famous quotes containing the words eastern, avenue and/or bridge:
“The Eastern steamboat passed us with music and a cheer, as if they were going to a ball, when they might be going to—Davy’s locker.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Play is a major avenue for learning to manage anxiety. It gives the child a safe space where she can experiment at will, suspending the rules and constraints of physical and social reality. In play, the child becomes master rather than subject.... Play allows the child to transcend passivity and to become the active doer of what happens around her.”
—Alicia F. Lieberman (20th century)
“I was at work that morning. Someone came riding like mad
Over the bridge and up the road—Farmer Rouf’s little lad.
Bareback he rode; he had no hat; he hardly stopped to say,
“Morgan’s men are coming, Frau, they’re galloping on this way.”
—Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894)