Strandherd Bridge gets another go-ahead
The Ottawa Citizen, June 30, 2009
OTTAWA - The National Capital Commission approved the design and proposed corridor for the Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge across the Rideau River on Tuesday.
The eight-lane bridge, with a traditional above-deck arch design, will be constructed beginning next year and be open by 2012. Gloucester-South Nepean Councillor Steve Desroches said the only remaining approvals need to come from Transport Canada and the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority.
The total project is worth $105 million, including construction of roads to the bridge. The bridge itself will cost $48 million.
Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre showed up at the NCC board meeting Tuesday to witness the approval. Poilievre called the bridge "a handsome piece of infrastructure."
The bridge will link Riverside South with Barrhaven.
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