Talk:Old Eastern Avenue Bridge

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If King Street was "re-aligned to merge with Queen Street East long before the two roads crossed the Don River" then how could this bridge be the King Street Bridge? Should it not be called the old Eastern Avenue bridge? I assume that the aforementioned sentence refers to time rather than distance as King and Queen merge on the Queen Street bridge, metres away from the river. Zooger (talk) 00:14, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've clarified the wording. By before it meant west of the river, not chronologically before. - SimonP (talk) 17:48, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The bridges' Wikimapia entry claims that they once carried road and railway. Is this correct? The northern one certainly looks as though it could have been a rail bridge. -Arb. (talk) 23:16, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'd always heard this was the case, and looks obvious if you look at current maps, but looking at past maps I so no evidence King was ever realigned. The original plan of York from 1833 has King shifting north after Parliament.

If this is true, the article should be renamed as it doesn't seem as though this bridge ever carried King Street. The earliest map with the bridge I could find is 1866, when it the street was named South Park St. Later maps show the bridge carrying Eastern Avenue. - SimonP (talk) 17:05, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]