Work ramping up in the tunnel
Repair work on the pont‑tunnel Louis‑Hippolyte‑La Fontaine (in all these years, has no one ever thought of giving it a shorter, snappier nickname?) will be ramping up soon and continuing through the rest of 2022.
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Kate
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Mitchell 08:17 on 2022-02-05 Permalink
The Hippy Fountain bridge?
dhomas 08:29 on 2022-02-05 Permalink
Most people just call it the “LaFontaine Tunnel”, it maybe that’s just us Eastern Anglos. CTV even headlines with this moniker:
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/construction-to-intensify-in-eastern-montreal-s-la-fontaine-tunnel-1.5768474
MarcG 10:09 on 2022-02-05 Permalink
I can hear a traffic reporter saying “The LaFontaine Tunnel is backed up” in my head – not just the Eastern Anglos, me thinks.
thomas 14:18 on 2022-02-05 Permalink
Francophones sometimes refer to it as simply “Louis‑Hippolyte”
Kate 11:14 on 2022-02-06 Permalink
I suppose one could just call it the tunnel. It’s not as if there are any others.
Tee Owe 15:04 on 2022-02-06 Permalink
I was going to say the same, but I thought I would get shot down for the Atwater tunnel
CE 15:54 on 2022-02-06 Permalink
Interestingly, my girlfriend mentioned taking “the tunnel” to someone driving us to PSC last night and I couldn’t figure out why she would suggest it considering we were staying on the island. She then clarified that she meant the Ville-Marie through downtown to Atwater.
Kate 17:11 on 2022-02-06 Permalink
Oh true, I don’t think of the Ville-Marie so much that way, but it really is.