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This report has been updated to reflect an announcement made by Transport Quebec on Monday, Oct. 7.

Here’s something new: an update on the Turcot Interchange reconstruction that won’t make you want to cry.

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For the first time since the $3.7-billion project began in 2015, there will be no major year-end highway closings in the network that links Highway 15, Highway 20 and the Ville-Marie and Décarie Expressways, used by 300,000 motorists daily. In fact, Turcot builders are reopening long-closed highway entrances and exits. Another surprise: the project is on time and on budget, at 83-per-cent complete with roughly one year of construction left to go.

“People will see a lot of changes in the next weeks before the end of the year; they’ll be driving on new structures,” said Transport Quebec spokesperson Martin Girard.

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It will become easier to access the Décarie Expressway from the western part of the island as of Monday morning. That’s when the long and convoluted detour to get to Décarie from Highway 20 East becomes a thing of the past, as the new permanent entrance will be opened.