New bridge has features meant for ice storms
The new bridge will be officially opened Friday morning.
Radio-Canada looks at an innovation on the cables of the new bridge intended to keep ice from building up and becoming a hazard.
TVA says the plan is to keep the cycle path open all year.
La Presse’s Bruno Bisson ponders the old bridge, the idiocy of the chosen design and the fears of government engineers over the last couple of years that it could come unzipped and fall apart. It closes forever at 10 p.m. Friday night, and the outbound lanes of the new bridge open on Monday morning.
Update: It’s been a lovely day for the ceremonial stuff down by the river. La Presse mentions the bridge will even feature a bust of Samuel de Champlain – an achievement, considering no portrait of the explorer is known to exist.
Bridge architect Poul Ove Jensen damns the bridge design with faint praise: “built for performance, not style.”
Marc 11:33 on 2019-06-29 Permalink
I drove over the new bridge for the first time twice yesterday and have a question about the signage hopefully someone can answer. The sign over the bus lane at around 12:30 had a “no bus” symbol in it (like no smoking but with the word “BUS” in it), and later on around 7pm it had a “yes bus” symbol (green circle with the word “BUS” in it). Any idea what these mean? All of the other signs seem to indicate that it’s a dedicated bus lane 24/7. https://postmediamontrealgazette2.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/0624-city-newchamplain.jpg