After having tossed out the previous “signature” design last March over budget concerns, Sherbrooke’s City Council was presented on Monday night with a new plan for the bridge to be built over the Magog River downtown. Hailed as more affordable but still attractive by Mayor Steve Lussier, the new span is hoped to eventually provide a modern replacement to the aging Grandes-Fourches Bridge while also integrating into plans to revitalize a major gateway to the city’s core.
“We will have a magnificent bridge while keeping the budget within our means,” Lussier said.
The new bridge design parts ways with the distinctive suspension design of the former plan, choosing instead to offer a stylized take on a simple concrete and steel structure that Urban infrastructure director Jocelyn Grenier explained is modeled after an upside-down canoe, and the idea of portage.
Sherbrooke council satisfied with scaled-back Grandes-Fourches bridge design
By Gordon Lambie
