Where do you think Keanu comes from? ;-) (badumtss)
Jokes aside, I graduated from Concordia University in Montreal and feel quite ironic that the Troitsky Bridge Building Competition is a thing while we seem to suck at building real bridges.
Montreal has its fair share of bad bridges. IIRC, the Champlain Bridge was touted as not requiring salt for de-icing in winter; it was never designed to protect against salt, yet it was salted every winter. The concrete is so damaged that a new bridge had to be built to replace it (which should complete this year, I haven't been back to Montreal in a long time so I don't know what it looks like now).
Needs no salting because there is always a ton of traffic on it and vehicles can barely go over 20 KM/h. That's one way to reduce accidents I guess ...
Jokes aside, I graduated from Concordia University in Montreal and feel quite ironic that the Troitsky Bridge Building Competition is a thing while we seem to suck at building real bridges.
Montreal has its fair share of bad bridges. IIRC, the Champlain Bridge was touted as not requiring salt for de-icing in winter; it was never designed to protect against salt, yet it was salted every winter. The concrete is so damaged that a new bridge had to be built to replace it (which should complete this year, I haven't been back to Montreal in a long time so I don't know what it looks like now).