Jacques Cartier Bridge

The Jacques Cartier Bridge (French: pont Jacques-Cartier) is a steel truss cantilever bridge crossing the Saint Lawrence River from Montreal Island, Montreal, Quebec to the south shore at Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.

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French - Steel - Truss - Cantilever - Bridge - Saint Lawrence River - Montreal - Quebec - Longueuil - Canada

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The Jacques Cartier Bridge is the site of more suicides than any other single structure in the world besides the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco http://www.suicidereferencelibrary.com/test4~id~1380.php. Pictograms, Police Patrols and, more recently, suicide barriers have addressed this somewhat.

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Golden Gate Bridge - San Francisco

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Together with the Champlain Bridge, it is administered by The Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Inc., a federal agency.

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The Story Bridge, in Brisbane, Australia, was modelled on the design of Jacques Cartier Bridge.

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Story Bridge - Brisbane, Australia

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The bridge can be seen at Google Maps, here

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