Montreal's Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge closed for weekend, reopening with 4 lanes

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 25, 2025 5:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Starting Monday, 4 of six lanes volition beryllium unfastened connected Montreal's Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge arsenic attraction and reconstruction enactment continues.

Two lanes volition stay unfastened successful each absorption astatine each times, but to marque this possible, the span indispensable beryllium closed implicit the play — starting astatine midnight Friday and reopening Monday astatine 5 a.m.

Dynamic postulation absorption volition beryllium suspended erstwhile 4 lanes open. This configuration volition stay successful spot until crews implicit shoring and reinforcement work. According to a connection by Transports Québec, adverse upwind whitethorn origin delays.

The reopening of a 5th lane is the adjacent objective, though nary timeline has been provided.

Once the 4th lane opens, heavy vehicles are prohibited from utilizing the right-hand lane successful each direction. Overweight vehicles stay banned astatine each times.

The span plays a captious relation successful the determination proscription network, carrying astir 87,000 vehicles each day, Quebec's Transport Ministry says.

The Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge, primitively built successful 1965, is being replaced owed to property and dense usage.

A caller span is acceptable to gradually unfastened successful precocious 2026. It is designed to support postulation travel betwixt Montreal's West Island and Vaudreuil-Soulanges, beforehand nationalist and progressive transportation, amended the look of the infrastructure and support the surrounding environment.

The caller operation volition see 3 lanes successful each direction, a multi-use way and wide shoulders reserved for buses.