Bridge began in the late 1970s and required both swing spans on the Fredericton Railway Bridge and the Carleton Street Bridge be opened for tugboats and barges needed during the project. This would be the last time the railway bridge swing span was ever opened. Following the completion of the Westmorland Street Bridge in 1981, the steel truss spans of the Carleton Bridge were dismantled; the bridge's piers remain in place across the river with 2 shore-bound piers on the south side being used to carry a short pedestrian bridge across Pointe-Sainte-Anne Boulevard. Another pier (second from the south side shore) became the location of a fountain, called the "Silver Spire of Inspiration", constructed in 2001 to honour New Brunswick athletes who participated in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, including Fredericton swimmer Marianne Limpert. Other than the summer of 2003, the fountain has only worked sporadically, but elements of it may have found a new home at the Grant-Harvey Arena complex, opened in 2012. See also List of bridges in Canada References Road bridges in New Brunswick Buildings and structures in Fredericton Transport in Fredericton Bridges over the Saint John River (Bay of Fundy) Bridges completed in 1982 1982 establishments in New Brunswick Steel bridges in Canada