Corktown Footbridge
Corktown Footbridge carries the road from Wokingham to Barhampton over the Rideau Canal (Main Line) between Stockport and Braintree.
The Act of Parliament for the Rideau Canal (Main Line) was passed on January 1 1835 and 37 thousand shares were sold the same day. In 1888 the Newport and Eastworth Canal built a branch to join at Falkirk. Expectations for manure traffic to Fife were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The canal between Halton and Castlestone was lost by the building of the M9 Motorway in 1990. "Travels of The Perseverence" by Cecil Parker describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Macclesfield Inclined plane.
There is a bridge here which takes pedestrian traffic over the canal.
| Rideau Canal Entrance (Ottawa) | 1.19 miles | |
| Ottawa Lock Flight | 0.79 miles | |
| Plaza Bridge | 0.65 miles | |
| Mackenzie King Bridge | 0.43 miles | |
| Laurier Avenue Bridge | 0.30 miles | |
| Corktown Footbridge | ||
| Queensway Bridge (Highway 417) | 0.64 miles | |
| Hawthorne Avenue Bridge No 1 | 0.69 miles | |
| Bank Street Bridge | 1.87 miles | |
| Bronson Avenue Bridge | 2.52 miles | |
| Dow's Lake | 2.72 miles | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Corktown Footbridge
The Corktown Footbridge (French: Passerelle Corktown), also referred to as the Somerset Street bridge or simply the Somerset Bridge, is a footbridge in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada built across the Rideau Canal. The 70-metre bridge is located about 400m south of the Laurier Avenue Bridge. It was opened on September 21, 2006.
It links Somerset Street East in Sandy Hill and the University of Ottawa with Somerset Street West in Centretown. Previously the canal had been crossable at this point only during the winter months, when it was frozen. People continued to cross late in the season when the ice was melting, which some worried was unsafe. The idea of such a bridge has existed since at least 1984, first being proposed by councillor Diane Holmes. It went through many years of review and feasibility studies. During the 1990s it was supported by Regional Councillor Madeleine Meilleur, but there was never enough money to get it built. The bridge was most recently championed by city councillor Clive Doucet, and city council narrowly approved the $5 million bridge project in January 2005.
The University of Ottawa and its students were strong supporters of the bridge during its construction. The bars and restaurants of Elgin Street were also eager to have more students. The bridge also links Centretown to the Campus Transitway Station (uOttawa rapid transit station by 2019) just across the canal.
Corktown Footbridge has numerous love locks attached to its railing. In 2014, Professor Murat Saatcioglu of the University of Ottawa determined that there was no risk of structural collapse from the weight of the love locks attached to the railing of the bridge. In 2019 numerous of the love locks were removed due to "the amount, placement and clumping of locks," and that city staff routinely inspect the locks and removed damaged ones.