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Among the several points on the Trans-Canada Highway with only one crossing, all of which are in Northwestern Ontario, the two-lane Nipigon River Bridge was the longest. [15] It was estimated that over $100 million of goods per day shipped within Canada by truck were delayed by the bridge closure. [16]
[22] [23] The crash also led to a wider discussion on safety of the numerous at-grade intersections along the Trans-Canada Highway as trucking association and citizens advocated for constructing additional grade separations. [24] [25] [26] A vigil was held in Dauphin at the Ukrainian Orthodox Auditorium on the evening of Thursday, June 22. [17]
Canada's deadliest multiple-vehicle collision resulted from dense fog conditions on a section of Ontario Highway 401 between Windsor and Tilbury. There were 87 vehicles involved in the pile-up in both directions of the divided highway, killing 8 people and injuring a further 45. [18] La tragédie de Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Nicolet 16 March 2000
While by definition the Trans-Canada Highway is a highway system that has several parallel routes throughout most of the country, the term "Trans-Canada Highway" often refers to the main route that consists of Highway 1 (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba), Highways 17 and 417 (Ontario), Autoroutes 40, 25, 20, and 85 (Quebec ...
The Trans-Canada Highway and Route 16 designation was applied in the 1960s after the Bayfield and Baie Verte/Strait Shores realignments. There have been three major realignments to the route: A 7 km (4.3 mi) bypass of Baie Verte and Strait Shores along with the Port Elgin Rotary, constructed in the 1960s as part of the Trans Canada Highway ...
In 1960, the construction of the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) through Quebec from the Ontario border to Rivière-du-Loup was announced. In Montreal, to avoid having to build a huge bridge that would have disfigured the city and destroyed a neighbourhood, engineers opted for the construction of a tunnel located under the Saint Lawrence River and dug a trench under the river bed and buried the ...
Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney enters race to be Canada’s next prime minister. Mark Carney, the first non-Brit to run the Bank of England since it was founded in 1694 and the former head of Canada’s central bank, says he is entering the race to be Canada’s next prime minister following the resignation of Justin Trudeau
Route 95 is a 14.5-kilometre-long (9.0 mi) provincial highway in New Brunswick, which connects Interstate 95 (I-95) at the Houlton–Woodstock Border Crossing near Houlton, Maine, United States to New Brunswick Route 2 (the Trans-Canada Highway) in Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada.