{"id":1318,"date":"2012-12-14T15:35:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2012-12-14T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T14:28:00","slug":"champlain-bridge-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/champlain-bridge-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"No Expropriations Planned for Champlain Bridge Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than 300 people from Verdun and Brossard attended Transport Canada\u2019s pre-consultation about replacement plans for the Champlain Bridge last weekend. Many were worried that their homes might be expropriated for the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were happy to say that no one will be expropriated,\u201d said Marc Brazeau, Transport Canada\u2019s acting director general for major bridge projects.<\/p>\n

Residents were also relieved that project specifications include the necessity to keep traffic flowing across the St. Lawrence for the full ten-year duration of construction. The replacement bridge will be constructed 10 metres to the north of the current span so that the two structures now in place (the one between mainland Verdun and Nun\u2019s Island and the main one between Nun\u2019s Island and Brossard) can be dismantled in sections.<\/p>\n

Business owners will be equally relieved to hear that Transport Canada also intends to ensure that the St. Lawrence Seaway remains operational for the duration of the project.<\/p>\n

Many of the other questions that members of the public had for the engineers, biologists and other professionals at fifteen different kiosks can\u2019t yet be answered. In part, that\u2019s because this series of consultations are actually pre-consultations required under an environmental review that was revised earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Most of the people answering questions are independent experts that were hired by Dessau Cima +, a consortium of engineering companies with almost 3,000 employees in Quebec. The firm is majority-owned by Laval-based Dessau Capital Inc. Each expert must submit a report of recommendations to be considered by the company hired to build the bridge.<\/p>\n

The biologists at the event said that they plan to recommend that dismantling be timed to enable the peregrine falcon that nests on the bridge to relocate onto the newer structure.<\/p>\n

Twenty or so nests of brown snakes won\u2019t be so lucky. They\u2019ll have to be moved, despite mixed research on whether such relocations can succeed.<\/p>\n

Note: This article appeared on page 23 of the city edition of the Suburban on Wednesday, December 12.<\/p>\n

December 7, 2012<\/h2>\n

Transport Canada’s Open Houses about Champlain Bridge Replacement<\/h1>\n

Specialists from Transport Canada are in Verdun for the next four days to answer questions about the replacement for the Champlain Bridge.<\/p>\n

They will be in the Borough Council Room, 4555 Verdun St.tonight, Friday, December 7 from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. and tomorrow, Saturday, December 8 from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

They will also be at the Elgar Community Centre, 260 Elgar St. on Nun\u2019s Island on Sunday, December 9 from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. and on Monday December 10 from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m.<\/p>\n

Two reports are available on the website: the 12-page preliminary environmental assessment at\u00a0http:\/\/www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca\/050\/documents_staticpost\/65574\/83529-eng.pdf<\/a> and the 70-page summary report at http:\/\/www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca\/050\/documents\/p65574\/83678E.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new bridge for the St. Lawrence will be built approximately 10 metres downstream (to the north) of the Champlain Bridge in order to minimize the impact of the new route on Nuns\u2019 Island, facilitate temporary installation work during construction, facilitate the connection to the existing transportation network and protect the temporary structures from ice. The study area identified for the project covers an area around the existing and planned bridges that is sufficiently broad to take into account the potential direct and indirect effects that the project may cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those effects include ten years of transportation, recreation and ecological frustrations because two bridges need to be completely replaced.<\/p>\n

These open house sessions are the first consultation sessions in the environmental assessment process. Written submissions can also be sent until January 15, 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will take these comments into consideration during the next steps of the environmental assessment,\u201d says the website.<\/p>\n

A second series of open houses will be held in the spring.<\/p>\n

Note: My initial report linked to the general website: www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca<\/a>. Readers told me this wasn’t useful enough.<\/p>\n

Note: This article appeared on page 1 of the Suburban on December 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  More than 300 people from Verdun and Brossard attended Transport Canada\u2019s pre-consultation about replacement plans for the Champlain Bridge last weekend. Many were worried that their homes might be expropriated for the project. \u201cWe were happy to say that no one will be expropriated,\u201d said Marc Brazeau, Transport Canada\u2019s acting director general for major […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-report","category-verdunposts","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-lg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15924,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/nuns-island-cut-mainland-verdun\/","url_meta":{"origin":1318,"position":0},"title":"Nun\u2019s Island cut off from Mainland Verdun","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"September 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Nun\u2019s Island residents will be even more cut off from the Verdun mainland than usual for the next few weeks. 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