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The Cherry Street Bridge work is part of the Four Signature Bridges contract for Toronto's Port Lands lakefront redevelopment project in the central province of Ontario. The lift of the 22.3m-wide x 57.1m-long Cherry Street North Bridge was performed by R&D Crane which - like the bridge fabricator - is a division of Cherubini Group. It was completed using the four largest cranes in its fleet: a Manitowoc Model 16000 lattice-boom crawler as well as a Grove GMK6400, GMK5250L and a GMK5240 all-terrain crane. The cranes combined to lift the structure from its supports in the yard at Cherubini's Pleasant Street Fabrication Facility in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. This allowed a self-propelled modular transporter (SPMT) with transfer beams and a huge Cherubini-engineered turntable to move in and take the load. The SPMT was then driven onto a barge moored alongside the site's dedicated harbourside wharf to begin its journey to Toronto - up the St Lawrence River and Seaway locks, past Montreal and into Lake Ontario. |