ORIGINAL Buffalo NY USA Canada INTERNATIONAL PEACE BRIDGE HISTORICAL SIGN

Description

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Peace Bridge
Peace Bridge from the Canadian side.
Coordinates
42.90694°N 78.90556°W
Coordinates
:
42.90694°N 78.90556°W
Carries
3 reversible lanes connecting to
QEW
in Canada and
I-190
in the United States.
Crosses
Niagara River
Locale
Fort Erie, Ontario
and
Buffalo, New York
Maintained by
Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority
(Peace Bridge Authority)
Characteristics
Design
Deck type truss
and
arch bridge
Total length
5,800 feet (1.77 km)
Longest span
130 m
History
Opened
June 1, 1927
; 94 years ago
Statistics
Toll
USD (E-ZPass), USD (cash) .25 CAD (cash), westbound only
[1]
Location
Wikimedia
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OpenStreetMap
The
Peace Bridge
is an international
bridge
between
Canada
and the
United States
at the east end of
Lake Erie
at the source of the
Niagara River
, about 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) upriver of
Niagara Falls
. It connects
Buffalo, New York
, in the United States to
Fort Erie, Ontario
, in Canada. It is operated and maintained by the binational
Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority
.
The Peace Bridge consists of five arched spans over the Niagara River and a Parker deck type truss span over the Black Rock Canal on the American side of the river. The length is 5,800 feet (1.77 km). Material used in the construction included 3,500 feet (1.07 km) of steelwork, 9,000 tons of structural steel and 800 tons of reinforcing steel in the concrete abutments. The Peace Bridge was named to commemorate 100 years of peace between the United States and Canada.
[
citation needed
]
It was constructed as a highway bridge to address pedestrian and motor vehicle traffic which could not be accommodated on the
International Railway Bridge
, built in 1873.
[
citation needed
]
Contents
1
History
2
Alternatives
3
Customs inspection and toll plazas
3.1
Preclearance
4
Road connections
5
Commemorations
6
See also
7
References
8
Further reading
9
External links
History
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edit
]
Peace Bridge from Fort Erie, with new lighting retrofit
The building of the Peace Bridge was approved by the
International Joint Commission
on August 6, 1925. Edward Lupfer served as chief engineer.
[2]
A major obstacle to building the bridge was the swift river current, which averages 7.5 to 12 miles per hour (12.1 to 19.3 km/h). Construction began in 1925 and was completed in the spring of 1927. On March 13, 1927, Lupfer drove the first car across the bridge. On June 1, 1927, the bridge was opened to the public.
The official opening ceremony was held two months later, on August 7, 1927, with about 100,000 in attendance. The festivities were transmitted to the public via
radio
in the first international coast-to-coast broadcast.
[
citation needed
]
Newspapers at the time estimated that as many as 50 million listeners may have heard the broadcast.
[
citation needed
]
The dignitaries who took part in the dedication ceremonies included
The Prince of Wales
(the future Edward VIII),
Prince George
, Canadian Prime Minister
William Lyon Mackenzie King
, British Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin
, U.S. Vice President
Charles Dawes
, Secretary of State
Frank Kellogg
, New York Governor
Al Smith
and Ontario Premier
Howard Ferguson
.
[3]
When the bridge opened, Buffalo and Fort Erie each became the chief port of entry to their respective countries from the other. At the time it was the only vehicular bridge on the Great Lakes from Niagara Falls to New York. The bridge remains one of
North America
's important commercial ports with four thousand trucks crossing it daily.
After new toll facilities were installed on the Canadian side in 2005, the Peace Bridge became the first
E-ZPass
facility outside the United States. There are no fees for entering the US