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Ask him to describe the bridge his company is building as part of the $22-million Oxford Street extension in London and project manager Scott Schiedel sums it all up in one succinct word--big.
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"The bridge being that large, everything is big; the beams are big, the concrete work is huge. It's big, that's my one word."
At 200 metres long and 30 metres wide, the four-lane structure--which also rises some 20 metres over the Thames River--is one of the largest bridges that Schiedel's St. Marysbased company, McLean Taylor Construction Ltd., has ever built.
In fact, it is the second-largest bridge ever built in London, trailing only the Guy Lombardo Bridge over the Thames on Wonderland Road, opened in 1978.
On the City of London's drawing board for about two decades, the new bridge will extend Oxford Street from Sanitorium Road to Commissioners Road, helping to relieve traffic congestion created by recent significant residential development in the city's west end.
The project also includes about 1.5 kilometres of new roadwork through virgin area, as well as providing a new river crossing for major sewer...