This week’s contest location was a bridge in northern Ontario, Canada near the town of Nipigon. It’s the only spot that everyone must pass by when driving across the country. No other paved routes exist to go around this one bridge! The cable-stayed bridge in Canada carrying Highway 11 and Highway 17, designated as part of the Trans-Canada Highway, across the Nipigon River was constructed between 2013 and 2018 when the eastbound span was opened.
During the process of construction after the westbound span was opened and all traffic was crossing it, the bridge “broke” during the first period of extremely cold weather. On January 10, 2016, the new bridge was closed to traffic after all 40 M22 bolts attaching a main deck girder to the northwest bearing failed causing the deck to lift by 60 centimetres. The bridge fully reopened to one lane in each direction on February 25, 2016.
Found before the hint:
- Lighthouse
- Martin de Bock
- Phil Ower
- hhgygy
- Walter_V_R
- Glenmorren
- Graham Hedley
- Garfield
- Paul Voestermans
- Bas van Limpt
- David Kozina