Detailed description is The Nipigon River Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge carrying Ontario Highway 11 and Ontario Highway 17, designated as part of the Trans-Canada Highway, across the Nipigon River near Nipigon, Ontario, Canada.A steel deck truss road bridge was built at the site in 1937, parallel to an existing Canadian Pacific Railway bridge. In 1974, the original bridge was replaced with a steel plate girder structure.Among the several points on the Trans-Canada highway with only one crossing, all of which are in north-western Ontario, the two-lane Nipigon River Bridge was the longest.A $106 million project to replace the bridge with two parallel spans carrying 4 total lanes began in 2013 as part of a region-wide project to widen the Trans-Canada Highway to 4 lanes; the cable-stayed designs for the twin bridges was to be the first of its kind in Ontario. The future westbound bridge opened on November 29, 2015; both directions of traffic were shifted onto the new bridge to prepare the old span for demolition. The eastbound span is scheduled for completion in 2017.Closure of new bridgeOn January 10, 2016, the new bridge was closed to traffic after an expansion joint on the deck was lifted by 60cm after a winter storm, resulting in the indefinite closure of the Trans-Canada Highway at the bridge. As the bridge is a single point of failure in Canada's National Highway System, its closure effectively required vehicles travelling between Eastern and Western Canada to detour through the United States. The deputy mayor of Greenstone, located 125km northeast of the bridge, declared a state of emergency for the municipality as a result of the closure.
Established in the recent years Nipigon River Bridge in thunder-bay, ontario in canada.
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