It also seeks to expedite other projects, including a plan to begin inspecting United States-bound trucks on the Canadian side of the bridge, and a gateway ramp project.
Much more than a remarkable feat of engineering and a source of great pride for the city and for the country, the bridge was a gateway, named for the strait which it spanned, and as imposing and graceful an embodiment of the promise of California and the golden West as had ever been seen.
On April 6, three days before the fall of Baghdad, the battalion arrived at the Diyala bridge, a major gateway into the southeastern sector of the city.
The bridge acts as a gateway to the National Capital Region and is the longest rigid frame bridge in Ontario with a 59 m span.
The proposed 6km (3.8-mile) bridge could be a gateway to India, tying Dhaka to the great metropolis of Kolkata.
After an hour, as a red sun crawled over the horizon, we approached the makeshift bridge which serves as a gateway to the Laguna Iberá.
The bridge itself was celebrated as a gateway to Brooklyn — a tribute affirmed by the giant colonnade and arch at the Manhattan entrance (incongruously topped by a frieze of a buffalo hunt, designed by an artist from Buffalo).
Most people jump in mid-span of the bridge and think it's a gateway to somewhere.
Within London, several new river crossings are proposed including a Thames Gateway Bridge (a revived East London River Crossing) - seen, mistakenly I believe, as a way of bringing development and jobs.
Yet the shock-haired Mr Johnson will have won at least a few grudging admirers with his opposition to the Thames Gateway Bridge, a £455m ($890m), six-lane road bridge across the Thames that was championed by Ken Livingstone, his predecessor.East London has traditionally been poorly served by transport infrastructure.
