Get ready for roadwork.
The city of Montreal is spending a record $531 million on construction in 2016.
That breaks down to $252 million on aqueducts, sewer systems and water mains, $200 million on repaving, and $79 million for what it is calling large projects.
“We have 400 work sites this year in the city of Montreal,” said Lionel Perez, who is one of two the Executive Committee members who oversee infrastructure and waterworks for the city of Montreal, say city actually has 400 construction projects planned for this year.
Check out major construction work here.
Drivers will want to avoid Cote Ste. Catherine St., currently six lanes across, which will go down to one lane for much of the next 20 months.
The total tally: 65 kilometres of repaired or replaced water mains and sewers, and 156 kilometres of repaved roads.
“Incalculable, in terms of time, frustration, productivity. It's going to be rough up to the next two years,” said traffic consultant Rick Leckner.
The water work also includes building new retention basins for rain water to prevent flooding, and building new freshwater storage centres.
Montreal is promising up-to-the minute information on its Twitter feed, @MTL_Circulaton, and frequent updates on its website.
“We'll be using Bluetooth technology to inform drivers and other users of the road in real-time the delay. They can expect with alternate routes. It shows we're trying different ways to accommodate and to minimize the impact on our citizens,” said Perez.
Motorists should do their part as well.
“Try to use public transit to the extent that it's available, try to car pool try to use staggered hours,” said Leckner.
The city of Montreal provided this list of the 52 largest projects that will take place.
| Number on map | Borough | Road | Type of work | Start | Duration | |
| Ahuntsic Cartierville | From | To | ||||
| 1 | Sackville Rd. | Prieur | Henri Bourassa | Repaving | April 2016 | 3 months |
| 2 | Lavigne Basin | Construction of wastewater collector | October 2016 | 18 months | ||
| Anjou | ||||||
| 3 | PCPR 2016 | Repaving | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 4 | East Sector Contract | Water main repair | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| CDN-NDG | From | To | ||||
| 5 | Triangle/Mountain Sights | Buchan | Paré | Sewers, water mains, road repair, landscaping | June 2016 | 13 months |
| 6 | Triangle | Namur | Jean Talon | Sewers, water mains, road repair, landscaping | June 2016 | 17 months |
| 7 | Cote St. Catherine | Victoria | Cote des Neiges | Sewers, water mains, sidewalks | May 2016 | 20 months |
| 8 | Cote des Neiges | Queen Mary | Edouard Montpetit | Repaving/Traffic lights | June 2015 | 18 months |
| Lachine | From | To | ||||
| 9 | Notre Dame | George V | Denis | Repaving/lighting/traffic lights | Oct. 2015 | 7 months |
| 10 | Musée Rd. | 6th Ave | Canal Rd. | Repaving/lighting/traffic lights | May 2016 | 2 months |
| 11 | Rockfield Basin | Construction of wastewater collector | July 2014 | 5 years | ||
| LaSalle | From | To | ||||
| 10 | Musée Rd. | 6th Ave | Canal Rd. | Repaving/lighting/traffic lights | May 2016 | 2 months |
| 12 | Clement | Des Oblats | Lafleur | Repaving/lighting | November 2016 | 8 months |
| 13 | Dollard | Elmslie | as needed | Repaving | August 2016 | 3 months |
| 14 | Lapierre Walkway | Champlain | La Verendrye | Repaving | April 2016 | 3 months |
| 15 | Des Baillets | Dollard | Shevchenko | Water mains | July 2015 | 1 year |
| Ile Bizard-Ste. Genevieve | ||||||
| 16 | PCPR 2016 | Repaving | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | From | To | ||||
| 17 | Prefontaine | Ontario | Rouen | Sewers, water mains, landscaping | April 2016 | 3 months |
| 18 | Pierre de Coubertin | Bourbonniere | Duquesne | Water main construction | Januany 2016 | 2 years |
| 19 | Notre Dame | Bossuet | Cadillac | Sewers, sidewalks | July 2016 | 2 months |
| 20 | Carrefour Pie IX | Pie IX | Sherbrooke | Landscaping, infrastructure work | September 2015 | 2 years |
| 21 | Pie IX | Hochelaga | Repaving | September 2016 | 9 months | |
| Montreal North | From | To | ||||
| 22 | Lacordaire | Maurice Duplessis | Leger | Sewers, resurfacing | May 2016 | 3 months |
| 23 | Gouin | Lacordaire | Veuillot | Sewers, resurfacing | May 2016 | 7 months |
| Plateau-Mont Royal | From | To | ||||
| 24 | Papineau | Ontario | Mont-Royal | Sewers, resurfacing | April 2016 | 3 months |
| 25 | St. Viateur | Gaspé | Henri-Julien | Water Main construction | January 2016 | 2 years |
| 26 | Masson | Papineau | Chabot | Sewers, resurfacing | May 2016 | 3 months |
| 27 | St. Denis | Duluth | Marie-Anne | Sewers, resurfacing | August 2015 | 1 year |
| Outremont | From | To | ||||
| 28 | Rockland Overpass | Outremont | TMR | Bridge reconstruction | May 2015 | 18 months |
| Pierrefonds-Roxboro | From | To | ||||
| 29 | Gouin | D'Orleans | Pittfield | Repaving | June 2016 | 3 months |
| 30 | West Sector Contract | Sewer reconstruction | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 31 | PCPR 2016 | Repaving | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| RDP-PAT | From | To | ||||
| 32 | Marc Aurele Fortin Basin | Pierre Blanchet | Marc Aurele Fortin | Construction of wastewater collector | June 2014 | 20 months |
| 33 | Maurice Duplessis | Olivier Lejeune | Riviere des Prairies | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | August 2016 | 17 months |
| Rosemont-La Petite Patrie | From | To | ||||
| 34 | Rosemont Reservoir | Beaubien | Rosemont | Water/Sewage repair | October 2013 | 6 years |
| 20 | Carrefour Pie IX | Pie IX | Sherbrooke | Landscaping, infrastructure work | September 2015 | 2 years |
| St. Laurent | From | To | ||||
| 35 | Marcel Laurin | St. Louis | Highway 13 | Sewers, Water mains, resurfacing | April 2016 | 4 months |
| 36 | Hickmore | Montée de Liesse | Repaving, lighting, traffic lights | September 2015 | 10 months | |
| St. Leonard | From | To | ||||
| 37 | Metropolitain | De la Salette | East of Langelier | Repaving | June 2016 | 2 months |
| SouthWest | From | To | ||||
| 38 | St. Patrick | Beaulieu | Monk | Lighting, traffic lights | November 2015 | 1 year |
| 39 | Galt Bridge | Champlain | Verendrye | Bridge repaving | September 2015 | 9 months |
| 40 | Bonaventure Expressway | Nazareth | Notre Dame | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | October 2011 | 5 years |
| 41 | Nouveau Havre Basins | William | Lachine Canal | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | November 2015 | 6 months |
| Verdun | From | To | ||||
| 42 | Gordon | Champlain | LaSalle | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | July 2015 | 2 years |
| 39 | Galt Bridge | Verdun | SouthWest | Bridge repaving | September 2015 | 9 months |
| Ville Marie | From | To | ||||
| 43 | Cote des Neiges | Hill Park Circle | The Boulevard | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | August 2015 | 14 months |
| 44 | Atwater | Breslay | Jean Girard | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | February 2016 | 7 months |
| 45 | Guy | Ste. Catherine | Sherbrooke | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | June 2016 | 1 year |
| 40 | Bonaventure Expressway | Nazareth | Notre Dame | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | October 2011 | 5 years |
| 46 | St. Paul | Place Jacques Cartier | Berrie | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | April 2015 | 2 years |
| 47 | Pole Frontenac/Ontario | De Lorimier | Iberville | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | July 2015 | 15 months |
| Villeray-St Michel-Park Extension | From | To | ||||
| 48 | Villeray | Chateaubriand | Boyer | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | April 2016 | 3 months |
| 49 | Jarry | St. Denis | Christophe Colomb | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | April 2015 | 18 months |
| 50 | Papineau | Cremazie | Louvain | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | May 2016 | 2 and a half years |
| 51 | St. Michel | Belair | Cremazie | Sewers, water mains, resurfacing | May 2016 | 19 months |
| 52 | Villeray East | 18th Ave. | 24th Ave. | Water mains | October 2016 | 2 years |
