The Lions Gate Bridge connecting Vancouver and the North Shore has reopened to traffic in both directions after a brief closure Monday because a large piece of metal became caught on a light structure.
Photos posted to social media showed a flat, bent piece of sheet metal hanging over the bridge deck from one of the counterflow light mechanisms.
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The Ministry of Transportation described the metal as “overhead windborne debris.”
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It was not immediately clear where the piece of metal came from was or how it blew on to the light structure.
Road crews were deployed with a boom lift to remove the metal.
The incident came as Metro Vancouver was under a special weather statement, warning of strong southeast winds near the water of 50 kilometres per hour, gusting to 70 km/h.
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