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Carries
  
Alberta Highway 16

Province
  
Alberta

Carry
  
Alberta Highway 16

Location
  
Edmonton

Body of water
  
North Saskatchewan River

Clover Bar Bridge

Crosses
  
North Saskatchewan River

Locale
  
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Official name
  
Clover Bar Bridge Beverly Bridge

Construction end
  
North span: 1953 South span: 1972

Similar
  
Capilano Bridge, Dawson Bridge, High Level Bridge, Groat Bridge, Quesnell Bridge

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Clover Bar Bridge and Beverly Bridge are a pair of bridges that span the North Saskatchewan River in the city of Edmonton. The twin spans carry 3 lanes each of the Yellowhead Trail, the name given to Alberta Highway 16 within Edmonton city limits.

Clover Bar Bridge, the original truss span, was completed in the summer of 1953 and connected Beverly with mostly rural Strathcona County. Beverly was amalgamated with the City of Edmonton eight years later. Once the original span could no longer handle traffic volume, a steel girder bridge was built just to the south to carry eastbound traffic. This bridge, completed in 1972 is called the Beverly Bridge.

The Clover Bar Railway Bridge is just to the north of the original span. This 504 m long and 42 m high bridge was built in 1907-08 as an iron and concrete truss by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway company and is still in use.

References

Clover Bar Bridge Wikipedia