LÉVIS – Rather than a tunnel linking Quebec and Lévis, the Conservatives are proposing to build two bridges on each side of Île d’Orléans. However, the number of traffic lanes remains undetermined.
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Éric Duhaime was on the Gilmour strike in Lévis to present his version of the third link project: two bridges on either side of Île d’Orléans.
Each of these bridges would have two or three traffic lanes on each side. The Conservatives propose to conduct a study to find out.
Last week, the Conservative leader said his third link project would cost between $3 billion and $5 billion. Asked about this on Sunday, he said that his estimates took into account the expected costs for the new Île d’Orléans bridge, which will have only two lanes and whose preparatory work has already begun.
During his first press briefing of the campaign, Sunday, François Legault had shot an arrow in the direction of the leader of the PCQ, who proposes a bridge crossing the island of Orleans as a 3rd link.
“There is a party that wants to destroy the landscape […]I don’t think the people of Quebec […] are going to agree,” predicted the Prime Minister.
For his part, Éric Duhaime defended himself by saying that the CAQ has already proposed the same thing in the past.
More details to come…