A slippery four-kilometre stretch of Highway 15 between the Metropolitan and the bridge to Laval will be resurfaced with asphalt at the cost of between $1 million to $5 million this summer.
The roadway, which hosts 150,000 cars per day, is not dangerous but lacks the needed adherence that is standard on current roads.
The fix is needed because the concrete employed to surface the road in 1994 was of a lower quality than today’s options.
"The norms in 1994 were not necessarily the same as today. We didn’t have the same technology,” said Transport Ministry representative Sarah Bensadoun. “We did an operation in 2005 to increase adhesion. We’re doing it again and will probably do it again in seven to 10 years."
