Tunnel: First day not the horror foretold
Media are in general agreement that the first day of the partial closure of the Lafontaine tunnel did not create a monster traffic jam as had been feared. There have been delays but nothing outrageous, although the Radio‑Canada reportage has an air of “just you wait!”
Kevin 22:32 on 2022-10-31 Permalink
Hardly anyone commutes on Mondays and Tuesdays… Although I was surprised that after having cadets and cops manning lights for the past 6 weeks around the Ville Marie’s eastern edge, there were none around Monday.
dhomas 17:08 on 2022-11-01 Permalink
@Kevin: I think Mondays and Fridays are probably the days with the least commuting (see my post below about it).
My daily commute back to my home office from dropping off the kids at school takes me to somewhere between the Beaubien and Sherbrooke exits of the 25 South. When I used to take the 25 to get home, I would be going west from RDP and onto the 25 Sout to get off at the Beaubien exit.
Since I work for a European company and it was a holiday in most of Europe today, my morning meetings were all canceled. I decided I would take the 25 to get home to see how bad it is. One thing to note is that if you’re getting onto the 25 South from the 40 West, you can no longer exit at the Beaubien exit. They’ve placed concrete dividers for all traffic arriving from the 40 West all the way down, past the Beaubien exit. If you are going east on the 40 and take the onramp to the 25 South, you can still get out at Beaubien. So, instead of getting off at my usual exit, I needed to get off at the next exit, Sherbrooke. Taking the 25 added over 30 minutes to my (regularly 15 minute) commute. It is really bad. And I didn’t even get to the bridge/tunnel. I can only imagine how much worse it is for them.