The Confederation Bridge has been in operation for 10 years. It is now, looking at the performance of the completed project, that the functional value can be assessed. The efficiencies offered to the movement of goods, services, and people are readily apparent. It is the environmental benefit offered by the bridge infrastructure over the ferry system that it replaced that is not so obvious. An environmental consulting agency has calculated that: vehicles using the Confederation Bridge consume 1/10th the fuel that the ferry service would have consumed to transport the same vehicle across the Northumberland Strait; annually, replacing the ferry with the bridge saves more than 16 million litres of fuel, and ; replacing the ferry service with the bridge is resulting in a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of more than 40,000 tonnes per year. This project was nominated for the 200 TAC Environmental Achievement Award. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E216511.
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