Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca is to give an update today on the on the Nipigon River Bridge, which failed last January less than two months after it opened.
The steel decking on the bridge lifted about 60 centimetres, causing a 24-hour closure of the east-west link on the Trans Canada highway.
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About 13 hundred trucks a day were forced to detour for several weeks.
Opposition politicians have accused Del Duca of sitting on reports related to the failure, but the minister has said it’d be reckless to release limited information in piecemeal fashion.
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