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Q: When approaching the Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge on westbound Highway 40, the middle and left lanes are horrendous: bumpy, patchwork all over the lanes and big dips in the road. I’ve been travelling this route for nearly nine years and it’s in an awful state. The same goes for the eastbound Highway 40 East between Morgan St. and St-Charles Blvd. It’s a mess of patches, bumps and potholes. Seriously, what more can one say about the state of our roads? They are embarrassing.

Karen Slabotsky,

Hudson

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A: Both those stretches of road are targeted for repaving, Transport Quebec spokesperson Martin Girard said last week. However, you will have to be patient. For the Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge and farther west, you’ll have to wait until 2019 for work to begin on westbound Highway 40, from the bridge to Highway 30. Transport Quebec plans to replace the asphalt road surface with a concrete one. In the same year, Transport Quebec also plans to repave the area east of the bridge, up to Anciens-Combattants Blvd. in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. That work will be done in asphalt.