Bad traffic dreaded for 2022 and 2023
Planners are already dreading the traffic snarls in 2022 and 2023 when the L-H-La Fontaine tunnel closes for needed repairs, shunting all that traffic onto the bridges. Getting people out of single-passenger vehicles is the ideal, but everyone loves their single-passenger vehicles.
DeWolf 11:02 on 2020-10-29 Permalink
People will take the metro and the REM if the alternative is sitting in gridlock for 1.5 hours just to cross the river. But there’s a huge amount of truck traffic that goes through the tunnel and I shudder to think of all of that spilling onto Papineau and de Lorimier.
Tim F 17:51 on 2020-11-01 Permalink
One of the outcomes of the pandemic will be many more people working permanently from home. Or at least companies much more open to that possibility. I work for one of the largest employers in Anjou and downtown. With the Mt Royal and LaFontaine tunnels closing we were already planning to rearrange workspaces to allow employees to work from home home half the time. Instead of taking a year to ramp up that change we hustled to get 95% of all employees working from home within one week in March.