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Drivers heading into Montreal from the South Shore over Thanksgiving weekend will need to find an alternative to the Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine Tunnel. “We hope we can encourage people to get onto public transit during the construction, and to stay on it for the duration of the work,” said Chantal Rouleau, the Quebec minister responsible for the Montreal region. Drivers heading into Montreal from the South Shore over Thanksgiving weekend will need to find an alternative to the Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine Tunnel. This closure is a very bad news for the 120 000 cars which travel that road every day! Transports Québec says the northbound lanes will be closed from 11 p.m. Friday until 2 p.m. Monday. Aut. A new ferry is being studied, as well as other ways to take merchandise from trucks across the river. If mitigation measures are not improved in a serious way and work goes ahead, “it’s the island that will be blocked, that will become paralyzed.”. The Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine tunnel-bridge was inaugurated in 1967. Please try again. The work is slated to start in the spring. The LH Lafontaine Tunnel opened in 1967 and runs between Montreal and Longueuil on the eastern side of the St. Lawrence. On Aug. 20, the northbound side of the tunnel was closed for about six hours after an RV's engine caught fire.

© 2020 Montreal Gazette, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. Montreal Island "will become paralyzed” if work goes ahead in the spring without better mitigation measures, the mayor says. If you're trying to get on or off the island, the Lafontaine Tunnel should likely be avoided as work will force several closures off and on starting Friday night to Monday at 5:00 A.M. All southbound lanes of Highway 25 are closed from Sherbrooke St. to Tellier/Futailles entrance overnight throughout the weekend. Describing herself as deeply concerned about major overlapping infrastructure projects that threaten to “strangle the city,” Mayor Valérie Plante said Wednesday she would like to see the start of work delayed on the reconstruction of the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine tunnel. The work — to begin in the spring of 2020 — will take four years and extend the life of the 52-year-old infrastructure by at least 40 years.
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The tunnel will be opened to traffic throughout the four-year reconstruction, but will require closing traffic lanes. The concrete walls of the tunnel also must be replaced.

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