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Bridge closure cuts off Trans Canada traffic

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11 Jan ’16 - 9:47 am

Man, that's going to suck for a while, looks the U.P. is going to be seeing a lot more traffic.

A bridge providing the only highway link between Eastern and Western Canada split in two Sunday afternoon, and is closed indefinitely as engineers examine the damage.

Local news reports say an expansion joint failed in the severe cold causing one half of the newly built Nipigon River Bridge to rise by two feet.

“Canada has been cut in half,” said Nipigon Mayor Richard Harvey. “If you want to take something from Toronto to B.C., it goes across this bridge. There is no alternative. Every truck that goes across Canada goes across this bridge.”

Harvey said engineers are currently working to find out what exactly happened to the bridge along the Trans-Canada Highway, how serious the problem is and how long it will take to fix.

“Clearly there is a problem, how bad the problem is no one knows at this point,” said Harvey.

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