{"id":929638,"date":"2026-10-12T01:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929638\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T01:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:14:08","slug":"photos-pattullo-bridges-familiar-orange-arch-taken-down-for-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929638\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Pattullo Bridge\u2019s familiar orange arch taken down for recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              PHOTOS: Pattullo Bridge\u2019s familiar orange arch taken down for recycling<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 3:30 pm Sunday, October 11, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The steel arch of Pattullo Bridge was removed over the long weekend, Oct. 9-11.<\/p>\n<p>Deconstruction work continues on the old Surrey-New Westminster crossing, <a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/2026\/02\/13\/pattullo-now-closed-forever-as-new-4-lane-bridge-opens-saturday-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">closed to traffic last February<\/a> when the new Stal\u0315\u0259w\u0313as\u0259m (\u201cRiverview\u201d) Bridge opened high above Fraser River.<\/p>\n<p>Strand jacks (hydraulic linear winch systems) were used to lower the steel arch onto barges on the river for transportation to another site for dismantling and recycling, say Pattullo Bridge replacement project managers. <\/p>\n<p>Arch removal work happened slowly over 48 to 60 hours, according to the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pattullobridgereplacement.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/637\/2026\/10\/PBR-FCP-COM-NOT-20261005-Pattullo-Bridge-Arch-Removal-Rec0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pattullobridgereplacement.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The lowering of the arch was visible from locations along the Fraser River including Brownsville Bar Park in Surrey and Westminster Pier Park and Albert Crescent Park in New Westminster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Residents were told to expect additional noise, and torches cutting the arch were visible Saturday morning \u201cas part of a carefully managed process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Closure of the river\u2019s main navigation channel was required from Friday night until Sunday night (Oct. 9-11). The domestic navigation channel was to remain open for marine traffic with suitable height clearance, the project website says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Pattullo Bridge\u2019s familiar orange arch taken down for recycling Published 3:30 pm Sunday, October 11, 2026 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-929638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}