Montreal is experiencing its first “critical period” of the year for potholes, which have already caused traffic jams and flat tires in addition to forcing motorists to zigzag all over the city.
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On several roads in different neighborhoods of Montreal, the road was in a sorry state on Friday, according to what was found The newspaper.
On the road network, a crater one meter in diameter that motorists took care to circumvent was discovered at the corner of rue Jean-Talon and boulevard de l’Acadie.
A little further east, on avenue Christophe-Colomb, driving in a zigzag was also fashionable since this very busy artery was strewn with potholes. A scenario that was almost identical on boulevard Saint-Laurent, near boulevard De Maisonneuve.
The highways have not escaped this since on Thursday morning, a “significant pothole” caused chaos in the Louis-Hyppolite-La Fontaine tunnel in the middle of rush hour.
Friday morning, around 6 a.m., another of these holes in the road caused several punctures on Highway 10 in Brossard before being sealed.
Worse next week
“Potholes always guarantee periods of freezing and thawing,” explains Nicolas Ryan, director of public affairs for CAA-Quebec, who points to temperature variations below and above the freezing point at the course of the last days.
Motorists are not at the end of their trouble, since another period of extreme cold will be followed by a thaw next week.
Friday evening the mercury was expected to drop to -17°C before returning to 3°C on Sunday.
“With what is coming at the end of the week, it is likely to crack the roads. »
The City of Montreal has deployed its six machines over the past few days, each of which can seal 300 potholes per day.
“We have the right conditions for them to appear, but also to intervene”, underlines the spokesperson for the City, Philippe Sabourin, evoking a “first critical period” this year.