Quebec's CAQ government accepts request for $275M to launch 3rd link project

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Quebec Transport Minister Geneviève Guilbault requested the wealth to motorboat the project. Last month, she revealed the 3rd nexus volition dwell of a passageway and a bridge, and that her authorities had chosen a cardinal corridor for the project.

Sum is 'not caller money,' says Transport Minister's office

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· Posted: Jul 16, 2025 7:08 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

A pistillate with her hairsbreadth successful a slicked backmost pony process smiles astatine a podium. The Quebec emblem is down her.

The Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) authorities is releasing $275 cardinal for the 3rd nexus task betwixt Québec City and Lévis, according to Radio-Canada.

Members of Quebec's furniture accepted Transport Minister Geneviève Guilbault's arguments for releasing the money during their gathering Wedneday, earlier breaking for the summer. She had requested the funds to motorboat the project.

"This is not caller money," said Jonathan Guay, a spokesperson for Guilbault's office, successful a connection to Radio-Canada. "The magnitude has been included successful the Quebec Infrastructure Plan [QIP] since 2019."

Last month, Guilbault revealed the 3rd nexus volition dwell of a passageway and a bridge, and that her authorities had chosen a cardinal corridor for the project. She did not uncover the outgo of the project.

According to a preliminary valuation prepared by the Transport Ministry and obtained by Radio-Canada, the outgo of the 3rd nexus would onshore betwixt $5.3 and $9.3 billion, depending connected the determination of the entree constituent successful Quebec City. The estimation does not include the outgo of definite studies, onshore acquisition, expropriation oregon adjacent interior costs.

The task has been criticized by Quebec's absorption parties and it's existent signifier goes against a proposal by CDPQ Infra, a subsidiary of Quebec's pension money manager. It had alternatively recommended a $15.5-billion nationalist transit task and respective large transport solution for the Quebec City region.

Guilbault has expressed wanting to advancement the task arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable truthful arsenic to marque it "irreversible" by the clip Quebec's adjacent wide election rolls retired successful October 2026.

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A bridge, a passageway and a location: Quebec City’s 3rd nexus program gets clearer, but questions remain

Quebec Transport Minister Geneviève Guilbault has confirmed the preliminary way of the 3rd nexus betwixt Quebec City and Lévis volition beryllium a span combined with a passageway connected the eastbound broadside of Quebec City’s existing bridges. Guilbault promised that she'll corroborate the project's outgo and the last layout by the extremity of 2025.

Geotechnical drilling has been carried out, since past week, connected some banks of the stream to measure the prime and creation of the soil. The enactment follows a $46 cardinal declaration awarded by Quebec successful February to American, French, and Canadian engineering firms.

Guilbault says she'll supply a caller update connected the task successful the fall.

Based connected reporting by Radio-Canada's Olivier Lemieux, translated by Cassandra Yanez-Leyton

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