Open and closed for long weekend
Some notes on what’s open and closed for the long weekend, and on weekend driving. CTV says road closures will be brutal with the old Champlain permanently closed, and no outbound bridge lanes on the new bridge till Monday.
Bill Binns 09:07 on 2019-06-29 Permalink
I am convinced there is some petty government functionary somewhere gleefully rubbing his/her hands together trying to come up with clever ways to maximize the pain caused by the traffic situation. After all this time waiting for the bridge they chose double holiday weekends to create this huge disruption.
Kate 09:11 on 2019-06-29 Permalink
I wonder. It never sounded promising when they claimed the bridge would open just before Christmas. There was bound to be work to be done on the finishing that would be massively easier during warmer months. But they didn’t want to wait for after the construction holiday, and doing the change-over on long weekends when there wouldn’t be a classic Monday rush hour makes strategic sense.
JaneyB 11:16 on 2019-06-29 Permalink
I think the double holiday openings was deliberately chosen as a way of underlining the two major funders and the whole Canada-Quebec harmonious working together idea. I thought it was fairly clever. Of course the reality of Montreal works as a kind of anti-Holy Spirit, giving a giant traffic snarling finger to the plan. Strangely perfect because annoying AF.
Kate 11:33 on 2019-06-29 Permalink
Good point, JaneyB. It divvies the thing up nicely.