Île d'Orléans Bridge

46.880233 - 71.137883Koordinaten: 46 ° 52 ' 48.8 "N, 71 ° 8' 16.4 " W

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Highway 368

St. Lawrence River

The Pont de l' île d' Orléans (English: Île d' Orléans Bridge ) is a 4,430 -meter-long bridge section over the St. Lawrence River, which the mainland in Québec near the waterfall Montmorency Falls Île d' Orléans with the connects. It is part of Highway 368, which continues through the island. The bridge to Île d' Orléans is the longest bridge over the St. Lawrence River, although it does not span the entire width of the river because of access dams. The bridge section consists of two-sided ramp bridges, some of which are constructed as truss bridges. The intervening main bridge in mid-stream is a suspension bridge. Measured in terms of total length, the building is the longest suspension bridge in Canada. Since the suspension bridge but with a maximum span of 323 meters between the two bridge pylons is comparatively short, not one of the longest suspension bridges.

The suspension bridge itself has a total length of 677 meters, the field amplitudes are 127 meters in the side panels and 323 meters in the main opening. The truss-like road carrier has two lanes and has a walkway. The 1935 completed bridge was designed by the architect O. Desjardins. Construction of the bridge was 1934. It replaced a ferry service and was an election promise by the then Prime Minister of Quebec Louis -Alexandre Taschereau, who was also intended as a fight against unemployment during the Great Depression. The bridge was originally called Pont Taschereau.