Time crunch faces builders of new Champlain Bridge

A tight timetable has gotten even tighter for builders of the new $4.24-billion Champlain Bridge.
In the last two years, Signature on the Saint Lawrence — the consortium building the new bridge — has endured two strikes, and an altered plan to deliver its materials due to weight load restrictions on the old bridge. Instead of transporting most of the materials for the bridge by truck, the consortium has had to use barges pulled on a winch through the St. Lawrence River’s heavy