Circle Drive Bridge, Steel girder bridge in Saskatoon, Canada.
Circle Drive Bridge is a steel girder bridge carrying the Circle Drive freeway across the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon. It is built as twin parallel spans, with a gap between them that was designed to allow extra lanes to be added later. A pedestrian walkway runs below and between the two structures.
The bridge was completed in 1983 to handle increasing traffic in Saskatoon during that period. In the early 2000s a third lane was added in both directions to expand its capacity.
Locals call it the 42nd Street Bridge, after the former name of Circle Drive's northern east–west leg from the 1960s. During construction, a campaign to name it after John Diefenbaker failed. In the mid-2010s it was briefly called Circle Drive North Bridge to distinguish it from the Gordie Howe Bridge.
The bridge carries Circle Drive across the South Saskatchewan River in northeast Saskatoon, with the Stew Uzelman Pedway running below and between the two spans for pedestrians and cyclists. Drivers heading over it in winter should allow for ice, since snow removal on the deck was tightened after a 2013 crash.
Following an incident where a vehicle went off the bridge in 2013, the city implemented new snow removal procedures for all bridges.
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