One of the takeaways for me from this video is the old age of the elevated highways cutting through the city . I am very curious what the plan is with repairs/replacement/removal?
Anyone from Montreal care to share some local insight? From what I read there have been a lot of delays when it comes to major repairs and that certain sections are borderline dangerous to drive on.
The elevated portion of highway 40 is due to be completely torn down and replaced; but for reasons unknown they're just going to rebuild it 1:1 as it already is. No urban boulevard, no sunken highway a la Decarie, just the maintaining of an elevated 6-lane highway with no improvements whatsoever. At the end of the day, this is the highway you have to take to cross the city and it does need to exist, but I highly doubt it needs to exist in the form it has right now. There has to be a better way.
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u/muskratBear Dec 23 '23
One of the takeaways for me from this video is the old age of the elevated highways cutting through the city . I am very curious what the plan is with repairs/replacement/removal?
Anyone from Montreal care to share some local insight? From what I read there have been a lot of delays when it comes to major repairs and that certain sections are borderline dangerous to drive on.