Weekend road closures: Construction, a street fair plus Tour de l'Île and Tour la Nuit
To get around Montreal this weekend, public transit, bicycles or a superhuman ability to navigate a compromised road network will be essential, with roads closures around the city due to construction, bike tours and a street fair. Here's the rundown:
Tour la Nuit
The Tour la Nuit on Friday is a 21-kilometre cycling route that starts on Parc Avenue at 8:15 p.m. ET, heads east to Parc Maisonneuve and ends back at Jeanne-Mance Park.
The road closures start as of 6:30 p.m. Roads will reopen as the tour progresses along the route, with the last closures ending at midnight.
Here's a list of the closures. And here's the route map (get a PDF here):
Tour de l'Île
Tour de l'Île occurs Sunday morning and the length of the route varies, but all events start on Parc Avenue and end at Jeanne-Mance Park.
The shorter routes head through Outremont, Côte-Des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-De-Grâce, Montreal West, Lachine, Lasalle and Verdun. The longer routes go around the West Island. You can find a list of closed streets here.
Camillien Houde Way will be closed to drivers over the mountain on Sunday morning between 7:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. for the first Cyclovia event, which is affiliated with the Tour de l'Île.
Here's the Tour de l'Île route map (there's a PDF here):
Mont-Royal street fair
Merchants on Mont-Royal Avenue are having their annual street fair this weekend. The avenue is closed to drivers from St. Laurent Boulevard to Iberville Street on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Turcot Interchange closures
Note the following closures from midnight Friday until 5 a.m. Monday:
The ramps from Decarie southbound to Highway 15 south (to the Champlain Bridge).and to Highway 20 west.
The ramp from Highway 15 north (from Champlain Bridge) to Highway 20 west.
The ramp from Highway 720 (Ville-Marie Expressway) west and Highway 20 eastbound to Decarie north.
One of two lanes will be closed on Highway 15 north to Decarie north.
Two of three lanes will be closed on Decarie north between the Turcot Interchange and the NDG Tunnel.
Saint-Jacques Street will be completely closed between Glen Road/De Courcelle Street and Decarie, starting Friday at 10 p.m., but the eastbound lanes will reopen at 8 a.m. on Sunday because of the Tour de l'Île.
Bridges, tunnels, expressways
In Brossard, Marie-Victorin Boulevard west will be closed at the Champlain Bridge between Simard Boulevard and the Highway 10 east ramp. Also, one of three lanes will be closed on Highway 132 west at the Champlain Bridge.
These closures run from Friday at 10 p.m. to Monday at 5 a.m.
The Bonaventure Expressway heading into Montreal will be closed from Saturday at 7 a.m. to Sunday at 7 a.m. between Pierre-Dupuy Avenue, the Casino de Montréal and Wellington Street. Two out of three lanes will also be closed in the eastbound (Champlain Bridge) direction at Wellington and the Peel Basin.
The northbound lanes of the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine tunnel will be closed just after midnight Friday night until 6 a.m. Saturday.
