Prince Edward Island is connected to the mainland with a two-lane 13.6 km bridge. There are designated times over the course of the day when the bridge is closed to traffic and oversized loads are transferred across.
Several deliveries are usually staged one after the other, so you get to see a variety of loads if you are unlucky enough to have to wait for 30-40 minutes. Most of the time, it’s pre-fab buildings and nothing too exciting.
There is redundancy in the form of a 90 minute Ro-Ro ferry route to the east, as well as mothballed docks near the bridge in case of an incident that closes the bridge completely. I’m not sure about the capacity for oversized loads on the ferry, but it’s often used by trucks to carry gravel and aggregate for construction.
more of a cost vs benefit tradeoff than a failure. It could also be just a SPOF for over-sized loads, whereas people have multiple routes on/off island.
Several deliveries are usually staged one after the other, so you get to see a variety of loads if you are unlucky enough to have to wait for 30-40 minutes. Most of the time, it’s pre-fab buildings and nothing too exciting.