Clair–Fort Kent Bridge

The Clair–Fort Kent Bridge is a steel truss bridge crossing the Saint John River between Clair, New Brunswick in Canada and Fort Kent, Maine in the United States.

In 1997, the steel members under the deck in the first 1.5 spans from the New Brunswick end were sandblasted, and then painted with a primer of inorganic zinc.

In 2009, officials from Canada and the United States determined that the bridge was structurally and functionally obsolete.

On January 28, 2011, officials from New Brunswick and Maine announced plans to build a new bridge and demolish the existing structure.

This crossing first opened in 1905 with the construction of a footbridge that traversed the Saint John River.