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And poor old Island Park Drive. Good Lord, could it get any worse? Yes, actually. We had family driving from Alta Vista a couple of weekends ago and they got stuck for 30 minutes on a street that more-than-ever resembles a parking lot.

My little delay, compared with yours, was nothing. Some of you are putting up with head-splitting waits every day.

Friends report the six-lane Portage Bridge was just as bad on Sunday, down to one lane in each direction. The Chaudière Bridge, as we all know, is closed to regular traffic until sometime in August, though pedestrians, cyclists and buses are back on the road. But that won’t be the end of it. Work on the old steel structure is to resume in September, but in off-peak hours.

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The Alexandra Bridge, meanwhile, is to undergo overnight lane closures this week, Monday to Wednesday, in the Gatineau-bound direction. Starting in July and until December 2020, one lane of the bridge is to be closed, all or some of the time. Oh joy.

Another question: Is there a giant brain in the National Capital Region that has looked at the staging of this road work and is monitoring the impact of closing — in whole or part — some 45 per cent of the interprovincial traffic capacity at the same time?

Doesn’t look like it. The National Capital Commission owns the Portage and Champlain bridges. It doesn’t have a traffic department and seems to have farmed out the syncing of traffic signals to another authority.

The Chaudière Bridge, which normally carries 27,000 vehicles a day, is owned by Public Services and Procurement Canada. When asked if the Chaudière work was on schedule, the department referred me to the website I was just on, which says “August 2019” for the conclusion of this phase. One lane is to close again in July 2020. Sure, why the hell not?