The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled in favor of the municipality of Wentworth-Nord on Wednesday, which demanded that the Ministry of Transport (MTQ) carry out work on a road deemed dangerous.
The municipality of Laurentides had to go to court to force the MTQ to do work to correct a dangerous curve that causes accidents every year.
“The 200m curve of the Main road has an outward slope causing vehicles to leave the road as well as poor drainage, which would have caused dozens of accidents”, can we read in the judgment of ‘origin.
The Superior Court of Quebec had already ruled in favor of the municipality in January 2021. The MTQ chose to appeal, despite its intention to comply with the first judgment.
“The municipality argued that the appeal became moot when the MTQ chose without regard to the appeal to comply with the judgment and do the said work. As for the rest, the appeal concerns a factual assessment by the judge and the circumstantial assessment of the concept of bad faith. The municipality is right”, can we read in the judgment of the Court of Appeal.
In 2019, then-mayor François Ghali called for urgent intervention to resolve a public safety issue. “What does it take for it to move? Deaths ? Should the Ministry of Transport (MTQ) be held criminally responsible for negligence when there is a death?”, he lamented in an interview with the “Journal de Montréal”.
Several cracks were observed in this bend, nicknamed “the Dubois curve”, because the singer Claude Dubois owns the land which borders it, had indicated the ex-mayor.