Picture perfect: New Walterdale Bridge is making its mark on Edmonton's look

Even before the bright, steel-arched replacement Walterdale Bridge opened in September 2017, the structure was a magnet for attention.
People who couldn’t assemble an Ikea shelf without swearing a blue streak griped about long construction delays, while calls to preserve its historic, surface-humming predecessor in some fashion were shrugged off by some local politicians.
Yet for an architectural object with so much affixed tension, the new Walterdale quickly clicked without friction as a