Quesnell Bridge
Quesnell Bridge looking south
Coordinates	53°30′24″N 113°34′00.5″W / 53.50667°N 113.566806°W / 53.50667; -113.566806
Carries	Motor vehicles, pedestrians
Crosses	North Saskatchewan River
Locale	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Maintained by	City of Edmonton
Characteristics
Total length	319.8 m (1,049 ft)[1]
History
Opened	1968
Statistics
Daily traffic	120,300 (2019)
Location

The Quesnell Bridge is a girder bridge that spans the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is part of Edmonton's southern freeway, Whitemud Drive. An average of 120,000 cars pass over the bridge every day.^[2]

Construction

In 2008, the city announced a project to widen the bridge, Whitemud Drive, and Fox Drive, adding capacity projected to be sufficient until 2058. It was completed in September 2011. In August 2010 during excavation for a sewer-pipeline line several fossils were unearthed about 27 m (89 ft) below ground level. They were believed to be fossils from two extinct genera, Edmontosaurus and Albertosaurus.^[3][4]

Quesnell Bridge connects the communities of Brookside and Brander Gardens on the south end to Quesnell Heights and Laurier Heights on the north end. Located directly to the southeast of the bridge's southern head is the Talus Dome, a public sculpture comprising roughly 1000 silver balls that was erected in 2011 at the cost of $600,000.^[5]