Peace Bridge, International deck arch bridge in Buffalo, United States.
The Peace Bridge is a green-painted steel deck arch bridge over the Niagara River between Buffalo, New York, and Fort Erie, Ontario. It has five arched spans over the river plus a Parker deck-type truss span over the Black Rock Canal on the American side, with a total length of 5,800 feet (1.77 km). Its arches rise from concrete piers in the water, and vertical and cross-braced steel members carry the flat deck above.
The crossing opened in August 1927 after two years of construction, creating the first road link between Lake Erie and Niagara Falls. Its name honors the peaceful relations between Canada and the United States after more than a century of shared border without military conflict.
Four thousand trucks cross this border point daily, making it a central connection for commerce between Canada and the United States.
The structure carries three traffic lanes with a center lane that reverses direction during rush hours, plus two walkways on the sides for people on foot or bicycles. Pedestrians and cyclists should expect stronger winds, as the span sits exposed above the river with no windbreak.
The bridge's name marks a century of peace between the United States and Canada. Beneath its Canadian foot in Fort Erie lies an archaeological site worked since 1909, when Frederick Houghton of the Buffalo Museum of Science began research there; it held an Onondaga chert quarry, graves and artefacts from the Archaic period to the 16th century. Finds are displayed in the Mewinzha Archaeology and Indigenous History Gallery in the Peace Bridge Administration Building lobby.
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