List of bridges in Montreal
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This is a list of bridges and other fixed links serving Montreal, on the Island of Montreal, proceeding counter-clockwise around the island from the southwest, with the year they were opened.
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[edit] Spanning the Saint Lawrence River and Saint Lawrence Seaway
- Saint-Laurent Railway Bridge (1887)
- Honoré Mercier Bridge (1934)
- Montreal side: borough of LaSalle
- Other side: Kahnawake Mohawk Reserve (South Shore)
Quebec Highway 138- The section of the bridge spanning over the Saint Lawrence Seaway was rebuilt to seaway standards in the 1950s.
- The bridge was twinned by an identical one on the downriver side which opened in 1963.
- Champlain Bridge Ice Structure
- Montreal side: borough of Verdun
- Other side: Saint Lawrence Seaway rampart
- Bicycles
- Champlain Bridge (1962)
- Montreal side: borough of Verdun
- Via Île des Soeurs (borough of Verdun, Montreal) (exit)
- Other side: Brossard (South Shore)
- Quebec Autoroutes
10, 
15, and 
20 - Note: Two spans, one north-south (aut. 15 and 20) and one east-west (aut. 10) connect Île des Soeurs to I. of Montreal.
- Quebec Autoroutes
- Victoria Bridge (1859)
- Montreal side: borough of Le Sud-Ouest
- Other side: Saint-Lambert (South Shore)
Quebec Highway 112
CN Rail
AMT Mont-Saint-Hilaire commuter train
VIA Rail VIA Rail Canada passenger trains to Quebec City, Gaspé & Halifax, Nova Scotia
Amtrak Amtrak passenger train to New York City- Built as a one-track tubular bridge which opened in 1859.
- Rebuilt as a two-track truss bridge in 1898.
- South Y approach rebuilt around the Saint Lambert locks of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in 1961.
- Pont de la Concorde and Pont des Îles (1966)
- Montreal side: borough of Ville-Marie
- Other side: Île Sainte-Hélène and Île Notre-Dame (Parc Jean-Drapeau), borough of Ville-Marie, Montreal
- Road, pedestrians, and bicycles
- Note: Pont de la Concorde spans the Saint Lawrence between I. of Montreal and Île Sainte-Hélène; Pont des Îles spans the Chenal Le Moyne between Saint Helen's Island and Ile Notre-Dame
- Montreal Metro Line 4 Yellow (1966)
- Montreal side: borough of Ville-Marie (Berri-UQAM station)
- Via Saint Helen's Island (Jean-Drapeau station) and Île Notre-Dame
- Other side: Longueuil, borough of Vieux-Longueuil (Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke station) (South Shore)
Metro tunnel
- Jacques Cartier Bridge (1932)
- Montreal side: borough of Ville-Marie
- Via Saint Helen's Island (exit) and Île Notre-Dame
- Other side: Longueuil, borough of Vieux-Longueuil (south shore)
Quebec Highway 134- pedestrians and bicycles
- Originally named Harbour Bridge/Pont du Havre, renamed Jacques-Cartier in 1934 (400th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's first voyage).
- The section over the Saint Lawrence Seaway was lifted to a new height in 1962.
- Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine Tunnel (1967)
- Montreal side: borough of Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
- Via Île Charron (Boucherville)
- Other side: Boucherville (South Shore)
Trans-Canada Highway
Quebec Autoroute 25- Note: Montreal to Île Charron is a tunnel; Île Charron to south shore is a bridge.
[edit] Spanning the Rivière des Prairies
- Pierre Le Gardeur Bridge (1939)
- Montreal side: borough of Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles
- Via Île Bourdon
- Other side: Repentigny (North Shore)
- Quebec Highway 138
- Width doubled in 1975
- Pierre Le Gardeur Railway Bridge
- Montreal side: borough of Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles
- Via Île Bourdon (Repentigny)
- Other side: Charlemagne (North Shore)
- Charles de Gaulle Bridge
- Montreal side: borough of Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles
- Other side: Terrebonne (North Shore)
- Pie IX Bridge (1937, rebuilt in 1967)
- Montreal side: borough of Montreal North
- Other side: Laval (Île Jésus)
- Centrale de la Rivière des Prairies Dam
- Montreal side: borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville
- Via Île de la Visitation and Île du Cheval de Terre
- Other side: Laval (Île Jésus)
- Set of three dams: one from Montreal I. to Île de la Visitation (west of the Papineau-Leblanc Bridge, includes footpath); another between Île de la Visitation and Île du Cheval de Terre; longest span between Île du Cheval-de-Terre and Île Jésus. Île de la Visitation is joined to Montreal by another two small bridges: a road bridge, which also serves as a dam (historically, a water mill) and a footbridge.
- Other side: Laval (Île Jésus)
- Papineau-Leblanc Bridge (1969)
- Montreal side: borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville
- Via Île de la Visitation
- Other side: Laval (Île Jésus)
Quebec Autoroute 19- Was one of the first cable-stayed spans, and was for many years the longest of this type, in the world.
- Ahuntsic Bridge (1930, rebuilt 1962)
- Montreal side: borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville
- Other side: Pont-Viau, Laval (Île Jésus)
Quebec Highway 335- Note: also known as Viau Bridge
- A wooden bridge was built there in 1847.
- Montreal Metro Line 2 Orange (Tunnel under construction)
- Montreal side: borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville (Henri-Bourassa station)
- Other side: Pont-Viau, Laval Cartier station, (under construction) (Île Jésus)
- Metro tunnel
- Bordeaux Railway Bridge
- Montreal side: borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville
- Via Île Perry
- Other side: Laval-des-Rapides, Laval (Île Jésus)
- Médéric Martin Bridge
- Montreal side: borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville
- Other side: Laval-des-Rapides, Laval (Île Jésus)
- Lachapelle Bridge (1930 and 1975)
- Montreal side: borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville
- Other side: Chomedey, Laval (Île Jésus)
Quebec Highway 117- Actually two bridges, side by side
- Also known as Cartierville Bridge
- A wooden bridge was built there in 1848, replaced by a steel one built in 1882.
- Louis Bisson Bridge (1975)
- Montreal side: borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro
- Other side: Laval (Île Jésus)
- Railway bridges
- Montreal side: borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro
- Via Île Bigras (Laval) (including Île-Bigras (AMT) commuter train station)
- Other side: Sainte-Dorothée, Laval (Île Jésus)
- CN Rail
- AMT Deux-Montagnes commuter train.
- Note: two spans, one north and one south of Île Bigras
- Jacques Bizard Bridge
- Montreal side: borough of L'Île-Bizard—Sainte-Geneviève
- Other side: Île Bizard (Montreal, borough of L'Île-Bizard—Sainte-Geneviève)
- Road bridge--Boulevard Jacques Bizard/Rue Somerset
[edit] See also
[edit] Spanning the Ottawa River
- Île aux Tourtes Bridge
- Montreal side: Senneville
- Via Île Girwood, Île aux Tourtes
- Other side: Vaudreuil-Dorion (Montérégie)
- Canadian Pacific/Canadian National Rail Bridge
- Montreal side: Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
- Via Île Bellevue
- Other side: Île Perrot
- CN Rail
CP Rail- VIA Rail Via Rail Canada passenger trains to Ottawa/Toronto
- AMT Dorion-Rigaud commuter train
- Galipeault Bridge
- Montreal side: Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
- Via Île Bellevue
- Other side: Île Perrot
