Pont Champlain (Montreal)
Coordinates: 45 ° 28 ′ 7 ″ N , 73 ° 31 ′ 3 ″ W.
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| Crossing of | Saint Lawrence River | |
| place | Montreal , Canada | |
| construction | Gerber girder bridge | |
| overall length | 3340 m | |
| width | 26.7 m | |
| Longest span | 215.5 m | |
| Clear height | 39.6 m | |
| start of building | 1957 | |
| completion | 1962 | |
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The Pont Champlain ( English Champlain Bridge ) is a road bridge over the Saint Lawrence River and the Saint Lawrence Seaway in the Canadian province of Québec , which will connect the Verdun and Le Sud-Ouest districts of Montreal over the Île des Sœurs ( "Island of the nuns", English Nuns' Island ) connects with the opposite municipality Brossard .
The bridge, built between 1957 and 1962, is a total of 3440 m long and 26.7 m wide. It has 6 lanes and is one of the busiest bridges in Canada with 135,000 vehicles per day.
Its main bridge is a 763.6 m long steel girder bridge with a 215.5 m wide central opening that crosses the St. Lawrence Seaway with a clear height of 39.6 m. Its two side openings are each 117.5 m wide. They are adjoined on both sides by 156.5 m long truss girder bridges with an overhead carriageway and 78 m wide openings.
The western ramp bridge is 2148 m long and has 40 openings of 53.7 m each. The eastern ramp bridge is 527.8 m long and has 10 openings of different widths: 4 × 53.7 + 2 × 51.4 + 3 × 52.5 + 52.7 m. It consists of prestressed concrete girders that were produced on the Île des Sœurs and moved to their place with two mobile gantry cranes . The ramp bridges were the first prestressed concrete bridges in Canada.
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300 m upstream, the Estacade ( Ice Control Structure ) was completed in 1965 , a prestressed concrete bridge between the Île des Sœurs and the St. Lawrence Seaway, with which the ice flow on the river was regulated and the formation of ice blockages prevented. Today the bridge is used as a pedestrian and bicycle bridge.
In 2015, the construction of the Pont Samuel-De Champlain , a cable-stayed bridge , began downstream next to the bridge , which was inaugurated on June 28, 2019 and replaces the Pont Champlain.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Champlain Bridge on Historic Overview
- ↑ Estacade du pont Champlain on archive.org (French)
- ^ Champlain Bridge inaugurated, but much work still left to do. In: Montreal Gazette . June 28, 2019, accessed April 20, 2020 .