{"id":8376,"date":"2016-10-26T15:07:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=8376"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:27:53","slug":"montreal-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=8376","title":{"rendered":"Jacques Cartier Champlain Bridge Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe<\/a>\u201d \u2013\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n

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Jacques Cartier Champlain Bridge Corporation <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Canada
\nProject type :\u00a0<\/strong>Highway overpass\u00a0construction
\nDate :<\/strong>\u00a0Oct 2016\u00a0Cost :\u00a0<\/strong>$11M CAD<\/p>\n

Synopsis :<\/strong>
\nTaxpayers often feel that their hard earned dollars aren’t being respected by the government officials charged with spending those dollars. In a story that feeds into that narrative, the city of Montreal has recently completed the demolition of an overpass that was only built a year previously. Having built the new overpass\u00a0officials found that the positioning of the overpass\u00a0is not in accordance with a redesign of the road access to the nearby Champlain Bridge that is also under redevelopment. The finalized design of the Champlain Bridge access has resulted in the newly constructed Highway 15 overpass being demolished just 1 year after it was opened to the public.<\/p>\n

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Pont Champlain – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic – Source: K. Lund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Note – To be fair it is worth noting that\u00a0government representatives claimed that the original overpass\u00a0was dangerous and hence needed to be replaced immediately. \u00a0At the time the replacement was commissioned they claim that the alignment and design of the new Chaplain bridge had not been settled and\u00a0hence could not be taken into account. While there may be some truth in that, it does raise the question of why the overpass was allowed to degrade to the point where it needed immediate replacement rather than temporary repair. \u00a0Given that the replacement of the Champlain Bridge was an ongoing design effort it seems reasonable that other options should have been considered rather than a costly rebuild of the overpass.<\/p>\n

Contributing factors as reported in the press:<\/strong>
\nFailure to coordinate across multiple projects. Lack of long term planning. Failure to utilize\u00a0“program management” practices. Lack of internal communications.<\/p>\n

Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Brand new $11\u00a0million overpass torn down in Montreal<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Highway 15 overpass, completed last year, now being demolished<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d \u2013\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. Jacques Cartier Champlain Bridge Corporation \u2013\u00a0Canada Project type :\u00a0Highway overpass\u00a0construction Date :\u00a0Oct 2016\u00a0Cost :\u00a0$11M CAD Synopsis : Taxpayers often feel that their hard earned dollars aren’t being respected by the government officials charged with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,77],"tags":[138,134,100,130,129,17,93,147],"class_list":["post-8376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-failed-project","category-why-projects-fail","tag-causes-of-failure","tag-decision-making","tag-examples-of-failed-projects","tag-government","tag-failed-project","tag-leadership","tag-why-do-projects-fail","tag-why-projects-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8376"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10041,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions\/10041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}