The Papineau-Leblanc Bridge was one of the first cable-stayed spans in

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. It is part of

Quebec Autoroute 19 Autoroute 19, also known as Autoroute Papineau (Papineau Highway), is an autoroute in Quebec. It crosses the Rivière des Prairies via the Papineau-Leblanc Bridge, connecting the borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville in Montreal and the Duvernay ne ...

and is one of the connections between

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and

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, spanning

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. It was fabricated from

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and has an

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. The freeway ends abruptly at the southern end of the bridge at the intersection of

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, where Autoroute 19 follows Avenue Papineau down to

Quebec Autoroute 40 Autoroute 40, officially known as Autoroute Félix-Leclerc outside Montreal and Metropolitan Autoroute/Autoroute Métropolitaine within Montreal, is an Autoroute on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in the Canadian province of Quebec. It ...

. The ''Leblanc'' portion of the name comes from the name of a street in

that was expropriated to build the autoroute. That street was named after Alpha Leblanc, a local landowner. Portions of that street remain on both sides of the autoroute. In 2000, a proposition to rename the bridge after the late

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was initially approved, then rejected by the ''Commission de Toponymie du Québec'', which ruled that the name ''Papineau-Leblanc'' was already entrenched in local culture and non-controversial. Most locals simply refer to this bridge as ''Papineau''.Debates - Issue 24 - February 8, 2000
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References

;Notes *Podolny, W. Jr., and Scalzi, J. B., Construction & Design of Cable-Stayed Bridges, John Wiley & Son, New York, NY, 1976. * Cable-Stayed Bridges: Theory and Design ( / 0-258-97034-0) Troitsky, M S *ASCE, Bridge (discusses the Luling Bridge), Civil Engineering, ASCE

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, 31, July 1984. * ENR, Stayed -Girders Reaches Record (discusses the Luling Bridge), Engineering News Record, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, April 8, 1982, *Mangus, Alfred, “A Fresh Look at Orthotropic Technology,” "Public Roads, The US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, www.tfhrc.gov March / April 2005, Washington, D.C., pp. 38–45. *Troitsky, M. S., Orthotropic Bridges - Theory and Design, 2nd ed., The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 1987.

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