Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge to shut once more this weekend

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The site visitors nightmare on the Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge continues, forcing it to shut one other weekend.

This time, not less than, it’ll solely be closed in a single course, and solely Saturday. On Monday, Quebec’s transport ministry introduced the bridge can be closed westbound, towards Vaudreuil-Dorion, from Friday Dec. 22 at 11:30 p.m. to Sunday Dec. 24 at 5 a.m.

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Visitors can be detoured at Anciens-Combattants Blvd. in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue towards Freeway 20. The freeway reopens at St-Charles Ave. in Vaudreuil-Dorion. Entry to Senneville Rd. stays obtainable.

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“This disruption is required to hold out work on the broken portion of the slab and goals to reopen a 3rd lane as shortly as potential,” the ministry mentioned in its announcement, including that work could possibly be postponed, extended or cancelled relying on the climate.

One lane can be obtainable always towards Montreal. At 5 a.m. Sunday, one lane can be obtainable in every course. No timetable has been introduced for when a 3rd lane will reopen.

The bridge was utterly closed this previous weekend for a similar purpose. It was additionally closed in a single day one night time the weekend earlier than, and closed utterly two weekends earlier than that.

Quebec has put in place a number of transit incentives whereas bridge site visitors is disrupted:

• Journey on the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter practice line is free for off-island residents, and extra departures have been added on weekdays.
• Exo bus routes connecting the Presqu’Île area to Montreal are free, as are STM routes 212 and 411. Free transit tickets are being given to commuters heading towards Montreal at stations between Hudson and Baie-d’Urfé on weekdays till Friday.
• Buses are being permitted to make use of the shoulder on westbound Freeway 40 in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue.
• The toll on the Serge-Marcil Bridge of Freeway 30 has been suspended.
• Visitors lights on Freeway 20 have been synchronized with police added to handle site visitors by Dorion and Île-Perrot.

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