As one of Ontario’s most recognizable pedestrian bridges wins an international award, we span your knowledge with a quiz – including if you’re among the thousands to cross it every day.
It’s crossed over into wider acclaim.
The Pickering pedestrian bridge, a pathway that has become iconic in Ontario, has won another nod of approval. Earlier this month (October 2019), the New York City Engineering News Record (ENR) presented Metrolinx with an ENR 2019 Global Best Projects Award of Merit for the construction project.

The award honours construction and design excellence, along with the project teams who have designed and built these extraordinary projects around the world in the past year.
(Scroll down below to take our short ‘bridge quiz’.)
Metrolinx representative, Peter Zuk, was in New York to accept the crystal “Globie” award.
“Metrolinx is honoured to receive the ENR award for the Pickering pedestrian bridge – especially knowing that there were a record number of submissions this year, and the quality of winning projects is outstanding,” he said.
The judges – an independent jury of industry professionals with extensive international experience – were tasked with selecting winners from the largest and most diverse field of winners in the seven-year history of the awards.
The 32 projects in contention represented 20 different countries around the globe and exemplified the risks, rewards, and hurdles overcome when designing and building internationally.
“Congratulations to the whole team for championing this project to its successful completion and giving Metrolinx the opportunity to be selected as an award winner of this prestigious competition,” said Bruce Sevier, Metrolinx’s senior manager, Non-AFP Early Works.
Earlier this year the bridge won an Urban Design Award from the City of Pickering. So with so much love shown to one span, we thought we’d take a moment to test your knowledge of it.
Here are four simple questions to take you to the other side.
And by the way, a complete list of the award winners can be viewed here.
Story by: Stacey Kenny, Metrolinx communications senior advisor.