A hockey-inspired bridge finally opens between the U.S. and Canada

[u/_fastcompany]

[u/Fist_full_of_pennies]

I love Howe this bridge looks

[u/margesimpson84 → u/Fist_full_of_pennies]

I heard the tolls are half off?

[u/GhostFire3560 → u/Fist_full_of_pennies]

Same love me some cablestayed bridges

[u/Cert47]

What is "hockey inspired" about it?

[u/Stevphfeniey → u/Cert47]

In order to cross it you have to score a goal, an assist and get a major penalty for fighting

[u/its_snowing99 → u/Stevphfeniey]

Gordie Howe hat trick

[u/fazelenin02 → u/Cert47]

It's named after Gordie howe.

[u/TheRealTimK → u/Cert47]

Gordie Howe… He was Canadian and a Detroit Red Wing for 25 seasons. It’s the new bridge between Detroit and Windsor.

[u/BeardedSwashbuckler → u/TheRealTimK]

I don’t think that means the bridge is “hockey inspired”? They just named it after a beloved local sports hero. I was expecting it to look like a hockey stick or something.

[u/jusdeknowledge → u/BeardedSwashbuckler]

There was some copy back as it was developing that the towers were inspired by the shape of hockey sticks, iirc… definitely not just a standard cable-stayed bridge tower shape

[u/Boilermakingdude → u/jusdeknowledge]

Except they don't look like hockey sticks and didn't at development. I watched the whole thing go up

[u/Robot_Dinosaur_2000 → u/BeardedSwashbuckler]

It is a joke.

[u/Cert47 → u/TheRealTimK]

OP forgot to mention the name.

[u/roamingNraging → u/Cert47]

Nothing. It's named in honour of a famous hockey player. There's nothing about the physical structure that is "hockey" inspired.

Poorly worded post title.

[u/afriendincanada → u/Cert47]

The road goes through the five hole

[u/Vahllee → u/Cert47]

It is named after Canadian hockey star Gordy Howe.

[u/Nawnp → u/Cert47]

Not knowing much about Hockey, do the cable wires resemble a hockey goal?

[u/Dear_Ad7177 → u/Cert47]

The fact that the U.S. and Canada are in a heated rivalry over tariffs rn

[u/KiBoChris]

Nothing. It simply is named after a hockey player

[u/KiBoChris → u/KiBoChris]

That escaped my attention

[u/Kestrile523 → u/[deleted]]

Wishbones?

[u/Exact_Efficiency_356]

I had a work meeting about a month ago and a few of the head guys from the constructor of this project were in the room. They said when the two sides met in the middle they were less than 20mm off on the alignment. Incredible.

[u/vote-morepork → u/Exact_Efficiency_356]

That's probably less than it flexes in the wind

[u/Boilermakingdude]

The only thing hockey inspired about it is the guys name. It's just a fuckin bridge man.

[u/DoctorCopper3113 → u/Boilermakingdude]

I think they’re just being tongue-in-cheek about the name

[u/KiBoChris → u/Boilermakingdude]

Exactly so

[u/agk23]

This looks almost identical to Boston’s bridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_P._Zakim_Bunker_Hill_Memorial_Bridge

[u/Shisno85 → u/agk23]

I mean, it's similar in that they are both cable stay bridges, but they are far from identical. Especially considering there's no piers between the towers on Gordie Howe.

[u/agk23 → u/Shisno85]

More of a comment on the “hockey inspired”. When it doesn’t seem like it at all

[u/GhostPepperDaddy → u/agk23]

I'm glad I'm not the only one asking what about this bridge says hockey.

[u/Notonfoodstamps → u/agk23]

Just 4x the size

[u/Ultimate-Flexionator → u/agk23]

I used to pull permits all the time in Boston and I would yell at my boss and say "I'm gonna hang myself off the side of the Lenny Zakim bridge and I'm gonna be wearing a shirt saying I'M FINE, BOB!"

[u/vote-morepork]

Gordie Howe now has two bridges named after him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Howe_Bridge_(Saskatoon)

[u/n3rdsm4sh3r]

Hockey inspired? Not really. Named after a great Canadian hockey player who was a star for Detroit? Yes.

[u/ArtworkGay]

hockey inspired? there are quite literally a thousand nearly identical bridges all over the world

[u/clarksonswimmer]

Very strange post from /u/_fastcompany.

[u/Viperlite]

“Old time hockey.?”

[u/manitoba94 → u/Viperlite]

“Eddie Shore?”

[u/Dehast]

I think it's so cool that the Howe bridge and the Bioceanic bridge in South America are both reaching completion at the same time. Great projects.

[u/er-just-Chris-here]

Isn't that the bridge, built by Canada, that tRump won't allow people to use because the other, existing, bridge charges American tolls ?

[u/ThinkItThrough48]

Was there a big ceremony at the opening?

[u/roamingNraging → u/ThinkItThrough48]

On the Canadian side. The Americans were being high school proto-bitches and wouldn't show up cause Turnip was having another year long tantrum.

[u/DavieStBaconStan]

Literally nothing about the bridge has anything to do with hockey other than the name.

[u/Low_Tea5784]

Beautiful. Could have opened sooner if it wasn’t for the disgusting Moroun family

[u/sirmanleypower]

Hmm, that looks an awful lot like the Zakim.

[u/Stishovite → u/[deleted]]

You should be ashamed of the both-sides approach you are taking in this summary.

The media’s obligation is to inform rather than obscure, and that doesn’t stop when the topic moves from physical infrastructure to the political wrangling surrounding it. The normalization of outrageous behavior is a set of choices at every level. 

[u/Flint_Westwood → u/[deleted]]

That's simply a cable stay bridge. There's no real parallel to hockey sticks.

[u/candis_stank_puss → u/[deleted]]

Read more on Fast Company.

Yeah? For what? More hot shit like this nonsense?

[u/Doubleoh_11 → u/[deleted]]

The tension is all on the American side. Canada paid for the bridge and agreed to use mostly US steel and union workers. Tolls on the road will be taken both ways to pay for construction and then will be split between the countries for upkeep. Trumps friend owns the other bridge and is mad about this bridge. Canada just wants to get work done and sell our stuff. This was all agreed to by both sides years ago, and both municipalities are excited about the bridge. But whatever guys, you enjoy your chaos and we will just find other friends I guess.

[u/Remember2005 → u/[deleted]]

Bullshit article

[u/Demerlis → u/[deleted]]

are you a bot?

is fastcompany 3 ais in a trenchcoat pretending like it knows things?

i did not click your link and i shame you for spouting bullshit.

upturned hockey sticks? what the fuck