Garden City Skyway | |
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| Coordinates | 43°10′02″N 79°11′43″W / 43.16731°N 79.19520°W |
| Carries | 6 lanes of  Queen Elizabeth Way |
| Crosses | Welland Canal |
| Locale | St. Catharines, Ontario |
| Other name(s) | Bridge 4A, "The Skyway" |
| Maintained by | Ontario Ministry of Transportation |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | steel |
| Total length | 2.2 kilometres (1.4 mi) |
| Width | 30 metres (98 ft) |
| History | |
| Opened | October 18, 1963 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 169,100 (2016)[1] |
| Toll | 1963-1973 |
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The Garden City Skyway is a major high-level bridge located in St. Catharines and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, that allows the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) to cross the Welland Canal without the interruption of a lift bridge. Six lanes of traffic are carried across the bridge, which is 2.2 kilometres (1.4 mi)[2] in length and 40 metres (130 ft) at its tallest point.
It is the tallest and largest single structure along the entire QEW; the Burlington Bay James N. Allan Skyway, which is also part of the QEW, is actually two separate and smaller four-lane bridges. Among all the bridges spanning the present Welland Canal, the Skyway is numbered Bridge 4A (the Homer Lift Bridge is Bridge 4). When the Garden City Skyway is closed due to a traffic accident or weather conditions, traffic is diverted to cross the canal at the Homer Lift Bridge.
In 2025, another QEW bridge is planned to be built adjacent to the existing Skyway, twinning it.
- ^ "Provincial Highways Traffic Volumes 2016" (PDF). Ontario Ministry of Transportation. Highway Standards Branch. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ^ "QEW | Garden City Skyway". Archived from the original on 2013-05-29. Retrieved 2011-05-02.