Posts Tagged ‘pattullo’
August 29th, 2008 by
Miss604
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After 71 years, the Pattullo is probably now in its most dangerous condition. Aside from being too narrow for modern-day vehicles and transportation standards, causing dozens to lose theirs lives in recent years, and even being packed with asbestos, the Bridge of Death is just plain scary to cross (so don’t ask why I did [...]
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Posted in surrey, traffic, whatthesurrey
June 11th, 2008 by
Miss604
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What’s next? Dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you? Not quite, but something that should concern commuters yet again is the deterioration of the Pattullo aka Bridge of Death as it has recently been revealed that its deck contains asbestos.
The toxic material was mixed in with the [...]
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Posted in rant, surrey, traffic, whatthesurrey, youtube
January 10th, 2008 by
Miss604
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Since I had a dream last night that I went to my 10 year high school reunion (which is coming up this spring), this morning’s link fest is dedicated to Surrey… and this morning’s WTS is a link fest.
Nickelback front man is blaming Surrey RCMP for his drunk driving charge. There are a lot of [...]
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Posted in link fest, surrey, whatthesurrey
November 15th, 2007 by
Miss604
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Welcome to Thursday, the day before Friday, which is the day before we leave for America to see many members of my in-law family. Here are a few tidbits floating around the news this morning:
- The video caught by a witness to the tasering of a man at YVR earlier this month has been [...]
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Posted in link fest, surrey, vancouver
September 12th, 2007 by
Miss604
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I have written about the Pattullo Bridge at length, well at least I think so as I have numerous posts over the last year on the topic of the Bridge of Death [1][2][3][4][5][6]. The bridge that has caused the death of 21 people since 1990 is being talked about again, as apparently every 6 months [...]
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Posted in blogs, surrey, traffic, transit, whatthesurrey
September 4th, 2007 by
Miss604
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When I was 9 years old the Skytrain came to Surrey. I remember driving over the Pattullo in our little red van every week and watching the progress on the Skybridge, just wondering how tall it would go and what it would look like when a train went across there for the first time.
This [...]
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Posted in surrey, traffic, transit, vancouver
September 3rd, 2006 by
Miss604
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This is turning into a rather heated debate (and I know I should probably just post something on Rant!Vancouver about it) but I thought I would open the discussion up here (even though I’ve blogged about it before). If anything, just to direct you to the post I have on Metroblogging [MBV]….about the Pattullo [...]
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