On Aug. 20, the northbound side of the tunnel was closed for about six hours after an RV's engine caught fire. Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Montreal Gazette, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4. It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Join the mailing list to receive daily email updates, Plante suggests delaying start of work on the La Fontaine tunnel. The tunnel will be opened to traffic throughout the four-year reconstruction, but will require closing traffic lanes. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. 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. Montreal Island "will become paralyzed” if work goes ahead in the spring without better mitigation measures, the mayor says. Lafontaine Tunnel to undergo repairs on Thanksgiving weekend, Lafontaine Tunnel under repair after RV fire, CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices. Drivers heading into Montreal from the South Shore over Thanksgiving weekend will need to find an alternative to the Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine Tunnel. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. Plante suggests delaying start of work on the La Fontaine tunnel. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. As of 2021, Transport Quebec said it will be able to maintain two lanes in each direction during the day, with more lane closures expected at night. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. We have enabled email notifications—you will now receive an email if you receive a reply to your comment, there is an update to a comment thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. Local News; Ottawa to chip in on overhaul of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine tunnel. tap here to see other videos from our team. © 2020 Montreal Gazette, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. It does not anticipate having to shut the tunnel completely during the project. A welcome email is on its way. “I’m very concerned that the REM (light-rail project) will not be finished and that on top of that we are going to block the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine,” she said. Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. We reserve the right to close comments at any time. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. The next issue of Montreal Gazette Headline News will soon be in your inbox. There was an error, please provide a valid email address. Repair work on the the 51-year-oldtunnel connecting the island with Longueuil on the South Shore is scheduled to begin in 2020. This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. We encountered an issue signing you up. 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.”. Turcot, Lafontaine Tunnel closures ensure traffic headaches over Victoria Day weekend. The concrete walls of the tunnel also must be replaced. We encountered an issue signing you up. The tunnel that links Montreal to Longueuil is used by 120,000 vehicles every day.
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