Granville Island Sept 11 2012 05a

Granville Island Sept 11 2012 05a, a photo by VancouverDoug on Flickr.

Here's the Burrard Street bridge looking all fancied up in high dynamic range infra red. The bridge that coulda been a totally awesome bridge but instead the city wimped out ... 70 years ago yet ... and the bridge never got to live up to it's potential awesomeness.

"You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley."

The plan was a dual decker bridge (check out the lower arch in the photo) with a draw bridge section on the lower level. But nooooo .... sigh.

Knowing it's history makes me love the bridge even more.