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Related: https://globalnews.ca/news/2445052/bridge-closure-blocks-trans-canada-highway-in-northern-ontario/ https://globalnews.ca/news/2445052/bridge-closure-bl
by frosted-flakes 5y ago
Related: https://globalnews.ca/news/2445052/bridge-closure-blocks-trans-canada-highway-in-northern-ontario/ https://globalnews.ca/news/2445052/bridge-closure-blocks-tra...
In January 2016, the cable-stayed bridge over the Nipigon River in northern Ontario that is the only road link between eastern and western Canada was closed when it began to buckle at an expansion joint.
- jacquesm 5y agoThere are quite a few single-points-of-failure on the road from Halifax to Vancouver, each of which would cause at least a few 100 to maybe even more than 1000 km detours through country that really isn't ready to deal with any kind of extra traffic. Especially North of Sault ste. Marie all the way to Thunder bay and between Vancouver and Calgary. Any problem there and you're going to be driving 100's of km on logging roads, unpaved, no facilities (gas, food).