The fluidity of the traffic

9 f Car bunch maintained for at least 40 kilometers since leaving the ferry, and it goes on... the ferry fever.

0 f Ferry struggling in ice .This situation may generate many hours delays and sometimes when stuck in ices the ferryboat is deported in the river

5 f Baie-Ste Catherine: Some visitors, puzzled by the end of the road or the line-up, turn back westward without reaching the North Shore

2 f Queueing up for kilometers, waiting for the ferry . This happens anytime but mostly on 3 days week-ends or when ice fill in the Saguenay.Photo M.S

1 f Many hours lost waiting for the ferry in Baie-Ste Catherine QC Photo M. Savard

6 f Tadoussac: Prisoner of a bunch of cars downhill, more than 70 vehicles may go before you.

8 f A trailer-truck boarding the ferry-boat.

7 f Ferry-boat: A bunch of car in development, up to 75 vehicles to enhance the ferry fever.

4 Safety:Ferry fever: 50 km after leaving the ferry-boat, drivers are still trying to get out of the bunch of cars.

13 f Quebec Transport Department agent trying to manage the traffic jam.

11 Important investments in the region induce heavy transport.

12 f Traffic jam ;Waiting for the ferry in the Tadoussac slope.

3 f Tadoussac;That trailer-truck coming out of the ferry-boat will induce an important car bunch which could reach 70 vehicles.

16 f Ferry fever; Impatient driver on the wrong way in the curve at the top of the Tadoussac slope.

15 f Excessive waiting induces u-turns to go back home or to travel via Saguenay (1.5 hour).

14 f The fog prevents the third ferry to work, inducing another important traffic jam

The safety

5s Safety: A ferryboat waits until the other leaves when three boats operate simultaneously in summer.

7 s Safety: A truck driver must step over the next vehicle to reach his own.

6s Safety: Trying to reach the WC,walking in limited spaces between dirty vehicles ; a factor among others to enhance ferry fever.

8 s Baie Ste Catherine: Beacons on road 138 to protect pedestrians near the whale cruises wharf.

9 s Ferry fever: Initiative to prevent.

10 sTadoussac: Down the Tadoussac slope.Vehicles waiting while others leave the boat.

23 s Difficult to open the door without knocking the car next to your vehicle or the boat itself.

22 s Safety: Ferry fever. The funnel effect while coming out of the boat on both sides of the river.Who will pass first?

21 s Tadoussac:Trailer trucks and pedestrian on the public road.

11 s Ferry-boat: Pedestrian walking among vehicles coming in..

13 s Safety: Enlarging the photo, one can notice a boat and kayaks seen from the ferry-boat.

17 s Mooring handling on the ferry-boat.

4 s Downhill in Tadoussac and the emergency ramp for vehicles in difficulties.

19 s A trailer truck climbing the Tadoussac hill (road 138)

3 Top of the hill in Tadoussac a slope 1.5 km long reaching a gradient of 10%. Check your brakes...

20 s Part of the Tadoussac village down the 1.5 km long slope reaching a gradient of 10%.

2 Safety; The ferry fever: Increasing year after year with the growth of the traffic .

12 s Ferry-boat; The place indicated by the staff will establish the importance of the bunch of car that will precede you when coming out.

15 s Tadoussac wharf ,some years ago.One can visualize the lack of options for a vehicule rushing down.

16 s Wave breaking in front of the ferry boat.

The environment

12 e These trucks traveling in the heart of the Tadoussac will induce vibrations, noise , dust and odors in the otherwise quiet village.

1 Environment: The green house gas and permanent noise of the boat engines , day and night, yearlong.

18 e Trailer-truck carrying a dangerous product, waiting down the Tadoussac hill.

3 Environment: Tadoussac; constraints of housing development on scenery.

4 e Baie-Sainte Catherine: The Pointe Noire: An exceptionnal site which would become easily accessible when the road 138 will be relocated.

The served area

2 The Saguenay mouth, Tadoussac, door of the only continental region of Canada still enclosed.;6% of Canadian area or 20 % of Qc plus 72 % of NF

73 City of Port-Cartier.

70 Happy Valley Goose Bay; the cityhall.

48 Sept-Iles: Entrance of the bay , at right the Iron Ore Company facilities and in front, the Alouette Aluminium Plant.

29 The Quebec North Shore region and the Labrador; a region larger than France which immediate future depends on the Saguenay bridge.

30 A study is going on to reactivate the old project of a tunnel between Newfoundland and the Labrador.

23 Tadoussac and the mouth of the Saguenay seen from uphill on the 138.

42 Manicouagan: The village of Chute-aux-Outardes , in front the Outardes river and in back the Outardes 2 dam and reservoir.

43 Manicouagan : The montagnais village of Betsiamites, a natives community proud of living in harmony with the environment since thousands of years.

44 High North Shore: The village of Les Escoumins

45 Minganie: Beach near the village of Sheldrake

46 Minganie , the village of Rivière au Tonnerre

47 Minganie: Havre St-Pierre, Fishingboat and harbour facilities for the Iron and Titanium Company.

Project in reference (1999)

69 Project 1999 Buckland and Taylor

68 An engineering masterpiece which will open the door of canadian north-east.

Project of SNC_Lavalin Genivar (2004)

84 SNC Lavalin 2004 project : Proposed crossroad to reach road 138 on the Tadoussac side.

88 SNC Lavalin 2004 project: Crossroad project N3 to enter directly in the village.

89 SNC Lavalin 2004 project: Main span surface, a double two lanes road.

91 SNC Lavalin 2004 Project: Proposed layout for the Baie-Ste Catherine side.

92 SNC Lavalin 2004 project : Proposed road lay-out for Tadoussac.

96 SNC Lavalin 2004 project: Projected road lay-outs in Baie Ste Catherine.

97 SNC Lavalin 2004 project: Projected road lay outs in Tadoussac.

98 SNC Lavalin 2004 project :Proposed road lay-out in Baie Ste Catherine

99 SNC Lavalin 2004 project: Proposed crossroad to access the Baie Ste Catherine village.

90 SNC Lavalin 2004 project: In 1998, the Quebec transport department estimated cost for similar project 50% lower.

83 SNC Lavalin 2004 Project: Road Lay-out proposed for the Tadoussac side.

78 SNC Lavalin 2004 project: Wind tunnel tests.

77 SNC Lavalin Genivar 2004 project : Cross section of the main span

102 SNC Lavalin Genivar 2004 Project: Plan view.

101SNC Lavalin Genivar 2004 Project : Elevation downstream side.

103 SNC Lavalin Genivar 2004 project: South pylon

103 SNC Lavalin 2004 Project : Animation of the building phases of the bridge

75 SNC Lavalin Genivar 2004 project: Detail of the suspension cable

76 SNC Lavalin Genivar 2004 project: Detail of the suspension cable

74 SNC Lavalin Genivar 2004 project: Detail of the suspension bridge cable.

Other bridge projects .

28 The Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco , built in 1937.

6 The April 25 bridge in Lisboa, longer than the proposed bridge, it has the world's deepest pillars in sea.

94 Construction phase: Kurushima bridge, Japan.

95 Construction phase: Kurushima bridge, Japan.

93 Phase of construction of a bridge similar to the proposed one.Kurushima bridge , Japan.

1 p Orleans Island Bridge:(1935): Building it today at the same ratio of the GDP in 1935 would cost 850 M$ in 2004.

Miscellaneous

4 Whale cruise leaving the Baie-Ste Catherine village wharf.A majority of tourists limits its visit to the region to a few minutes stop in Tadoussac.

7 Press conference of the Coalition for improving the Trans Quebec-Labrador highway

5 Initiative against ferry fever by the Transport Department of Quebec.

10 Baie-Comeau;Papermill. The Saguenay ferry generates costs over $ 5 millions a year for the North Coastal forest industry.

59 Avoided costs: Ferry boat and Coast guard; mechanical failure and winter deicing

61 Car bunches create or increase the ferry fever, as well as many other irritating factors

65 Baie Ste Catherine ferry wharf before its enlarging

35 Baie Ste Catherine whale cruise wharf for minute-tourist stopping in Tadoussac for a few shopping then back in Charlevoix.

32 Canadian North-east : Pop-ups of main communitiesavailable in section The served region, subsection The road network.

Labrador

Construction of a bridge on the Churchill river August 2005

Ferry Blanc-Sablon QC to Ste Barbe, NL via Belle Isle Straight 17 km -90 min

Muskrat falls, future hydroelectric project of lower Churchill .

Construction of phase 3 of the Trans Labrador highway by the Newfoundland government.