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== Replacement of Champlain Bridge == |
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Revision as of 12:35, 23 September 2008
Champlain Bridge | |
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| Coordinates | 45°28′07″N 73°31′03″W / 45.46861°N 73.51750°W |
| Carries | 6 lanes of Autoroute 10, 15, 20 |
| Crosses | St. Lawrence River |
| Locale | Brossard, Quebec and Montreal, Quebec |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Steel truss cantilever bridge |
| Total length | 7,412 m (24,312 ft) |
| Width | Six lanes |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 159,000[1] |
| Toll | free |
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The Champlain Bridge (French: Pont Champlain) is a steel truss cantilever bridge with approach viaducts constructed of prestressed concrete beams supporting a prestressed concrete deck paved with asphalt. The bridge crosses the Saint Lawrence River and Saint Lawrence Seaway, connecting the Montreal boroughs of Verdun and Le Sud-Ouest to Brossard on the South Shore.
The bridge, with approaches, is approximately six kilometres in length. When the project began, the bridge was designated as the "Nuns' Island Bridge" because it crosses over Nuns' Island. In 1958, it was officially named the Champlain Bridge in honour of the explorer Samuel de Champlain who founded Quebec City in 1608.
Construction history
On August 17, 1955, federal Transport Minister George Marler first announced the planned construction of a new bridge connecting Montreal to the South Shore via Nun's Island. The city's existing bridges (Victoria, Jacques Cartier and Honoré Mercier had become inadequate to support the amount of traffic that carried residents from the growing South Shore suburbs into Montreal.
The National Harbour Board was placed in charge of the project. Through several lengthy meetings and consultations in the fall of 1955, the location for the bridge and its approaches were selected. Originally, the plan had been to build the bridge with only 4 lanes, with room for further expansion to 6 lanes. During the design phase however it was decided to go with an initial 6-lane design immediately.
The bridge was opened on June 29th, 1962. At the time, the bridge had only one approach from Montreal, via Wellington Street. The section of the bridge that includes the approaches to and from Atwater Avenue and La Vérendrye Boulevard were opened two years later, on December 7, 1964.
In 1967, the final approach to the bridge on the Montreal side was completed when the Bonaventure Expressway was opened to traffic.[2]
Replacement of Champlain Bridge
On September 20, 2007, a major French-language Montreal daily, Le journal de Montréal, published a story about Federal Government plans to build a new 10-lane span next to Champlain Bridge rather than face the increasing maintenance cost of the aging structure[3]. Federal minister Lawrence Cannon confirmed that his ministry is seriously considering the prospect of a new bridge.[4]
In October 2007, Novaroute, a private firm, revealed a plan that would construct a two-story tunnel bridge under the Saint Lawrence River that would also collect tolls based on the time period. In Novaroute's plan, one level will be for buses and trains while the second will be for regular vehicles except tractor-trailers. The tunnel will be built under a public-private partnership and will take five years to be completed.[5]
See also
- List of crossings of the Saint Lawrence River
- List of bridges
- List of bridges in Montreal
- Federal Bridge Corporation Limited
External links
- Champlain Bridge (Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Incorporated, Government of Canada)
- Steve Anderson's MontrealRoads.com: Champlain Bridge (A-10, A-15, and A-20)
- Champlain Bridge at Structurae
References
- ^ Sources disagree on the actual figure:
- Transport Canada says 49 million ("Transport Canada - Surface Infastructure Programs - Bridges: Champlain Bridge". Transport Canada. Retrieved 2008-08-25.)
- the corporation in charge of maintaining the bridge quotes 57.1 million vehicles ("The Champlain Bridge and Bonaventure Expressway". The Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges. Retrieved 2008-08-25.)
- the 2006-2007 Federal Bridge Corporation annual report counts 58.2 million ("Annual Report" (pdf). Federal Bridge Corporation. 2007. p. 15. Retrieved 2008-08-25.)
- a June 2008 La Presse article suggests 58 million without attributing the source (Bruno Bisson (2008-06-11). "Circulation: une pagaille monstre, vite résorbée" (in French). La Presse. Retrieved 2008-08-25.)
- ^ "The Champlain Bridge and the Bonaventure Expressway" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-07-01.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ "Un super-pont de huit ou dix voies?" (in French). Canoe.ca. 2007-09-20. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
- ^ "Officials mull replacing Montreal's Champlain Bridge". The Gazette. 2008-08-18. Retrieved 2008-08-18.
- ^ "Un nouveau tunnel sous le fleuve?" (in French). LCN. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
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