Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge

46.50703 - 84.36132Koordinaten: 46 ° 30 ' 25.3 "N, 84 ° 21' 40.8 " W

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Saint Marys River

The International Bridge, or more precisely Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge crosses the Saint Marys River and connects the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and thus crosses the boundary between the United States and Canada. It is the northern endpoint of Interstate 75 Construction of the international bridge began in 1960 and the traffic was released on 31 October 1962.

The building is a steel truss arch bridge with continuous roadway. It consists of two independent bridge parts. On the U.S. side bridge two sheets of the Soo Locks and on the Canadian side spans a single large sheet of the smaller Canadian locks. The two parts are connected by a beam bridge construction. In the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie binds a bridge span on the road to the city center. The total length of the structure is about 4.5 km.

On 6 June 2005 a project to bypass the city center was announced by trucks to bind to heavy traffic on a ring road just off Highway 17 north of the city by the provincial government of Ontario. The city had already made ​​strong for some time for this solution because of many residents, the management of traffic was seen in the city center into a security problem. The bridgehead could not be installed automatically on the basis of the already heavily populated bank on the side of Ontario. This truck bypass route, which is called in honor of the former Parliament member Carmen Provenzano named Carmen 's Way, was officially opened in September 2006.

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• Bridge Facts & Trivia. Michigan Department of Transportation. Accessed on 7 October 2012.