{"id":654,"date":"2022-08-21T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/?p=654"},"modified":"2023-10-08T00:31:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T00:31:33","slug":"5-little-known-facts-you-might-not-know-about-the-bloor-viaduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/5-little-known-facts-you-might-not-know-about-the-bloor-viaduct\/","title":{"rendered":"5 little-known facts you might not know about the Bloor Viaduct"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Bloor Viaduct is one of Toronto&#8217;s most iconic structures. Built&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogto.com\/city\/2011\/09\/the_birth_of_the_bloor_viaduct\/\">between 1914 and 1918<\/a>, it was officially named the Prince Edward Viaduct after the Prince of Wales, a fact which Torontonians tend to gloss over by stubbornly referring to it by its street-related colloquial name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite its significant status, there&#8217;s plenty of mostly unknown information about the bridge, not the least of which is that it&#8217;s actually not one bridge at all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some facts you might not about the\u00a0<s>Bloor<\/s>\u00a0Prince Edward Viaduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"the-project-actually-consists-of-three-parts\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The project actually consists of three parts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people think of the Bloor Viaduct as the bridge that spans the Don Valley, but the project took shape as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_Edward_Viaduct#\/media\/File:Toronto_from_the_Air_(HS85-10-35829).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three distinct parts<\/a>: fill was used to build up the roadway between Sherbourne and Parliament, a first bridge spans Rosedale Valley, followed by the iconic section over the Don.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogto.com\/city\/2015\/11\/5_quirky_facts_you_didnt_know_about_the_bloor_viaduct\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.blogto.com\/city\/2015\/11\/5_quirky_facts_you_didnt_know_about_the_bloor_viaduct\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 little-known facts you might not know about the Bloor Viaduct<\/a> &#8211; BlogTO, August 21, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Bloor_viaduct_(2967568397).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paul Bica, Toronto, Canada<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bloor Viaduct is one of Toronto&#8217;s most iconic structures. Built\u00a0between 1914 and 1918, it was officially named the Prince Edward Viaduct after the Prince of Wales, a fact which Torontonians tend to gloss over by stubbornly referring to it by its street-related colloquial name.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its significant status, there&#8217;s plenty of mostly unknown information about the bridge, not the least of which is that it&#8217;s actually not one bridge at all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}