The newly-constructed Nipigon River Bridge in northern Ontario heaved apart in January 2016 due to multiple bolt failure during a winter storm, causing the bridge deck to lift by around 60 centimetres (or 24 inches).
The bridge, part of the Trans Canada Highway, was closed to vehicular traffic for 17 hours, severing the only road link between eastern and western Canada. During the closure, traffic had to detour via the United States.
Located some 100 kilometres (or 62 miles) northeast of Thunder Bay, the Nipigon River Bridge is a pair of two-lane cable-stayed bridges that replaced the previous bridge built at the site in 1974, which in turn replaced a steel deck truss road bridge from 1937.
