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Richard3:
--- Quote from: Chris on November 04, 2022, 06:45:59 PM ---A 5.8 kilometer segment of Autoroute 85 has been upgraded to a full freeway east and west of Exit 60 at Saint-Honoré-de-Témiscouata. The official opening was on November 2.
https://www.transports.gouv.qc.ca/fr/salle-de-presse/nouvelles/Pages/nouveau-troncon-Saint-Honore-de-Temiscouata.aspx
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Next time I'll go the the Maritime Provinces, I'll have to bring my camcorder to take some images of the whole project. The 40-km (25-mile) remaining stretch was separated in 7 parts, so for now, parts 1, 2, 3 and 6 are open to traffic (parts 1, 2 and 3 fully completed, and part 6 will have the last asphalt coat in 2023), and work are in full srtrenth on parts 4, 5 and 7, with next openings planned for 2024, and works fully completed by 2026.
webfil:
--- Quote from: Richard3 on December 11, 2022, 09:29:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: webfil on October 13, 2022, 03:33:29 PM ---The construction of the Philipsburg interchange is slated for an undated phase IV, along with the Saint-Alexandre interchange. Although a design for thie Philipsburg interchange has been made public, there has been no land acquisition, thus probably no definitive planning. There is hardly 1,000, nay 2,000 vpd on this section; nothing justifies grading quickly the scarce intersections with low-volume roads or dead-end streets south of Pike River.
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Just looking at the MTQ website, on the A-35 Project page, Phase IV is still undated, and still reported as "on planning" in the PQI (Plan québécois des infrastructures, or Quebec's Infrastructural Plan), but is on the list of bill 66, accelerating some government projects, adopted in 2020, so it will probably begin in 2023 or 2024, in order to upgrade the last part of the actual QC-133 (the divided part) to interstate standards.
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Hold your horses, construction will not begin in 2023. There, you have it : it's listed as in planning in the PQI, which lists the priorities in terms of infrastructures for the next 10 years. The status remains the same since Saint-Sébastien―Philipsburg and Philipsburg-Border sections were split in two phases in 2019. Funding for the construction has not even been secured by the Treasury board, so the works are not about to begin since no provision for a contract was made, no contractor was chosen, no tender was received and no calls for tenders was launched ― and I'm not even talking about the needed ministerial authorizations and redtaping.
Regarding the wide range of autoroute extensions that are of debatable relevance, and the funding problem, whether it's the FORT (fund for the maintenance of the road network, supplied with declining income from gasoline taxes) or the rise of interest rates, choices will have to be made, are being made or have already been made. I do not think A-35 phase IV is one of them, for reasons previously mentionned. And when this leg of highway will be built, it will comply not to interstate standards, but to the MTQ design manuals. The latter differs greatly from the FHWA prescriptions.
Stephane Dumas:
This is how the A-25 extension downgraded to a PQ-125 realignement will look from some plans I saw on this blog.
https://transportologie.wordpress.com/2022/08/21/en-bref-prolongement-de-la-125-mise-a-jour-aout-2022/
LilianaUwU:
There was a major accident on QC 132 in Saint-Fabien, so local politicians have been calling for the extension of A-20:
https://journallesoir.ca/2022/12/14/tragedie-routiere-la-20-prioritaire/
Richard3:
--- Quote from: webfil on December 13, 2022, 02:01:12 PM ---
--- Quote from: Richard3 on December 11, 2022, 09:29:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: webfil on October 13, 2022, 03:33:29 PM ---The construction of the Philipsburg interchange is slated for an undated phase IV, along with the Saint-Alexandre interchange. Although a design for thie Philipsburg interchange has been made public, there has been no land acquisition, thus probably no definitive planning. There is hardly 1,000, nay 2,000 vpd on this section; nothing justifies grading quickly the scarce intersections with low-volume roads or dead-end streets south of Pike River.
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Just looking at the MTQ website, on the A-35 Project page, Phase IV is still undated, and still reported as "on planning" in the PQI (Plan québécois des infrastructures, or Quebec's Infrastructural Plan), but is on the list of bill 66, accelerating some government projects, adopted in 2020, so it will probably begin in 2023 or 2024, in order to upgrade the last part of the actual QC-133 (the divided part) to interstate standards.
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Hold your horses, construction will not begin in 2023. There, you have it : it's listed as in planning in the PQI, which lists the priorities in terms of infrastructures for the next 10 years. The status remains the same since Saint-Sébastien―Philipsburg and Philipsburg-Border sections were split in two phases in 2019. Funding for the construction has not even been secured by the Treasury board, so the works are not about to begin since no provision for a contract was made, no contractor was chosen, no tender was received and no calls for tenders was launched ― and I'm not even talking about the needed ministerial authorizations and redtaping.
Regarding the wide range of autoroute extensions that are of debatable relevance, and the funding problem, whether it's the FORT (fund for the maintenance of the road network, supplied with declining income from gasoline taxes) or the rise of interest rates, choices will have to be made, are being made or have already been made. I do not think A-35 phase IV is one of them, for reasons previously mentionned. And when this leg of highway will be built, it will comply not to interstate standards, but to the MTQ design manuals. The latter differs greatly from the FHWA prescriptions.
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I share your opinion on the project, but I don't think the transformation of that section of the QC-133 into A-35 would be so complicated. I mean, the roadway is already 2x2, so the only major changes consist in turning intersections into interchanges, and adding some stretches of service road here and there. The cost of that entire section would not be so high; we don't talk about billions, here.
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