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http://orleansonline.ca/pages/N2022111003.htm

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Starting earlier this month, a barge conducting geotechnical analysis of the riverbed was seen anchored off of Orleans. The work is to determine what type of foundation requirements are necessary for the new bridge.  The locations shown are where the barge has been sampling and matches the path from the National Capital Commission's (NCC) previous plans for the "Corridor 7" bridge.

Some of those houses on the Gatineau side, pictured above, are going to be bulldozed to make room for the bridge.

You know the government is serious about doing something when they start staffing up for it.  Once you've hired people, there's no going back, you can't look like you created a big office full of people to do nothing, a bridge will be built somewhere, regardless of need...we just need to make sure it is not in Orleans! The job posting says it all too, the new bridge is a "government mandated priority".  Nice new name for it, "Additional Crossing Project", catchier than "Interprovincial Crossing"?  Notice how they never call it a bridge and even when they do discuss a bridge, use locations that most people will not know such as McLaurin Bay versus "Orleans riverfront", so you don't even look at the newspaper article discussing your neighbourhood!