Transportation Minister Laurent Lessard confirmed Friday something Transport Quebec quietly announced last week.
As CTV reported last Friday, the Ville-Marie Expressway is going to be demolished and replaced with a new road called Route 136.
With the ramp from Highway 15 north to the 720 East closed and taken down earlier this year, work is now set to begin on restricting more access to the eastbound route to downtown.
Starting October 14, one of the two lanes on the Turcot interchange ramp from Highway 20 East to the Ville Marie will be closed.
This closure will last two years.
As mentioned previously, starting in November two lanes of the eastbound Ville Marie will then be closed.
But as crews work on the new road and the connections through the Turcot, the ramps from Decarie South and the 20 East will be closed on weekends from November until February or March 2017.
And in case you forgot, the work to dismantle what remains of the St. Jacques Bridge will take place the second weekend of October.
That means on Thanksgiving weekend, all northbound lanes of Highway 15 through the Turcot, as well as the ramps connecting the Decarie Expressway to the Ville Marie East, will be closed from the night of Friday Oct. 7 until the morning of Tuesday Oct. 11.
Transport Quebec is urging drivers to take public transportation to get around, and is spending tens of millions of dollars to buy new buses and add extra service to bus lines across Montreal.
