Quebec Bridge

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The Quebec Bridge (pont de Québec) is a road, rail, and pedestrian bridge across the lower Saint Lawrence River between Sainte-Foy (a former suburb that in 2002 became the arrondissement Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge in Quebec City) and Lévis, in Quebec, Canada. The project failed twice during its construction, in 1907 and 1916, at the cost of 88 lives and additional people injured. The bridge eventually opened in 1919. The Quebec Bridge is a riveted-steel truss structure and is 987 metres (3, 238 feet) long, 29 metres (95 ft) wide, and 104 metres (341 ft) high. Cantilever arms 177 metres (581 ft) long support a 195-metre (640 ft) central structure, for a total span of 549 metres (1, 801 ft), still the longest cantilever bridge span in the world. (It was the all-categories longest span in the world until the Ambassador Bridge was completed in 1929) It is the easternmost (farthest downstream) complete crossing of the Saint Lawrence River. The bridge accommodates three highway lanes (there were none until 1929, when one was added, another was added in 1949 and a third in 1993), one rail line (two until 1949), and a pedestrian walkway (originally two). At one time, it also carried a streetcar line. From 1993 until 2024, it was owned by the Canadian National Railway, before it was purchased by the Government of Canada for a symbolic $1. The Quebec Bridge was designated a Nati

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