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SHUTTERSTOCK—The 123-year-old Alexandra Bridge, an interprovincial bridge connecting downtown Ottawa with Gatineau, Que., is nearing its end thanks to the effects of six decades of road salt, federal officials said recently.
“There are no solutions to maintain the bridge,” said Paul LeBrun, the Procurement Department’s chief engineer for bridges. Stefan Dery, the department’s director-general for management of active infrastructure, said the project will be designed with a private-sector consortium and that means “we do need to be sensitive around communicating project numbers as we advance into a competitive selection process.”
During that construction phase, the Alexandra Bridge will have to be torn down, sometime around 2028 or 2029.
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