Soaring St-Jacques Bridge spire a beacon of hope for traffic relief

If you’ve noticed the large white spire soaring above the almost finished St-Jacques Bridge in western N.D.G., you’ve made the designers happy, because that was the idea.
One of three distinctive overpasses of the $3.67-billion Turcot reconstruction project meant to highlight entryways to Montreal, the look of the new St-Jacques Bridge, with steel cables splaying like wings from the central tower, is meant to evoke the form of an airplane.
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