{"id":5117,"date":"2017-08-25T10:19:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2017-08-25T10:19:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:19:38","slug":"bridge-expansion-driving-piles-and-pouring-piers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/25\/bridge-expansion-driving-piles-and-pouring-piers\/","title":{"rendered":"bridge expansion >> driving piles and pouring piers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Blog_Corp_2017_08_23_Hwy400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5118\" src=\"http:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Blog_Corp_2017_08_23_Hwy400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Blog_Corp_2017_08_23_Hwy400.jpg 450w, https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Blog_Corp_2017_08_23_Hwy400-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you go under a bridge, what do you see? Huge concrete columns \u2013 piers \u2013 that support it. The <a href=\"http:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/2017\/07\/26\/the-expansion-of-the-highway-400-bridge-on-highway-7-west-begins\/\">five-metre expansion of the bridge on Highway 7 West over Highway 400<\/a> is becoming fully visible as the new piers are completed. In the photo above you can see the three completed piers and crews pouring the concrete cap for the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Each one of these piers is held up with a set of nine piles. Piles are long poles driven straight down, until they reach a surface solid enough to hold everything above. In this case, the piles are each nine metres long.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo, the tall piece of equipment beside the west abutment wall is the pile driver, which is \u2013 as you\u2019d expect \u2013 used to drive the piles into the ground.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the pile-supported-piers, there will be bridge footings, girders, and a wider deck to make room for cars and trucks \u2013 as well as buses on new vivaNext dedicated rapidway lanes and a multi-use path for pedestrians and cyclists.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s true that piers are just a part of the bridge, the bridge is part of a road, which is part of a rapid transit system, which connects people to where they need to go.<\/p>\n<p>Next time you go under a bridge, look at the piers that support it, and the engineering and construction that went into them.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re building rapid transit, and along the way making infrastructure \u2013 built to last.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For information on ongoing vivaNext projects, be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/subscribe\/\">subscribe to email updates<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vivanext\">follow us on Twitter<\/a>. Questions or comments? Comment below or email us at <a href=\"mailto:contactus@vivanext.com\">contactus@vivanext.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you go under a bridge, what do you see? Huge concrete columns \u2013 piers \u2013 that support it. The five-metre expansion of the bridge on Highway 7 West over Highway 400 is becoming fully visible as the new piers are completed. In the photo above you can see the three completed piers and crews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,96,30,832,1],"tags":[39,114,983,984,48],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge-expansion","category-construction","category-rapidways","category-technical","category-uncategorized","tag-bus-rapid-transit","tag-highway-7","tag-piers","tag-piles","tag-vaughan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5122,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}