This week Bill teases out a future adventure with some history on a connecting link in Canadian transportation and what we learned when it was suddenly broken
I'm in the planning stages for a future story about the Nipigon River Bridge that hinges on a strategic location and some infrastructure history.
Important premise If there was a natural disaster or if you were a nefarious terrorist and wanted to strategically plan a transportation and economic destructive impact it would be at the Nipigon River Bridge where Highways 11/17 and the expansive CPR railway bridges merge. This fording location on the north shore of Lake Superior is the one place in Canada where there is only one east-west crossing to move in both directions.
"It's not just us. It's all of Canada that has a problem right now," then, Nipigon Mayor Richard Harvey told the National Post. It begins at the Manitoba boundary, 50 km west of Kenora, and the main section ends where Highway 417 begins just west of Arnprior. Highway 11 begins at Highway 400 in Barrie and arches through northern Ontario to the Ontario–Minnesota border at Rainy River via Thunder Bay. The road continues as Minnesota State Highway 72 across the Baudette–Rainy River International Bridge.
The remaining two-lane section between Huntsville and Callander was four-laned through the 1990s and 2000s, and was completed in 2012, it is thought to be a Premier Mike Harris legacy, as he also represented the riding of Nipissing. Futuristic In a Northern Ontario Business article, Five big ideas for Northern Ontario - Sept. 25, 2017, Charles Cirtwill, president and CEO, of Northern Policy Institute identified an interesting new future and realistic concept based on all of the above.
"We have large population centres separated by large distances, and the ability to slot in one or two stops along the way to increase the options for the rest of us.”He went on to summarize.
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