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Fasten your seat belts. Montreal’s traffic maze is going to get even more challenging. With everyone back on the roads, we are in the depths of a traffic nightmare, a multi-year perfect storm of three mega projects combined with hundreds of additional work sites. While Quebec and Montreal can ease the pain somewhat, we all must adapt to get through this.

In my many years observing, this is the worst since pre-Expo 67: a new Turcot Interchange, a new Champlain Bridge, a new Bonaventure autoroute and preparing for Montreal’s 375th birthday next year. Add to this, the countless repairs to our aging infrastructure. Orange is indeed the new city colour. Plus red for no go and rage.

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This is all taking a serious toll, as confirmed by two recent surveys. According to 88 per cent of Montreal-area human-resources professionals, congestion is having a negative effect on the workplace and the well-being of employees. They just don’t want to take it anymore and are increasingly looking elsewhere to work. There is a constant battle among cars, pedestrians and the city’s one million cyclists. Vélo Québec says 536,000 Montrealers use their bikes as a mode of transport.