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We’ve just learned our construction woes won’t end in 2021 as promised, or even in 2023, or 2025.

A confidential two-year-old city report obtained by the Gazette predicts major construction work in Montreal will continue until 2040! And probably much longer, when many of us are in walkers, wheelchairs or graves.

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The reconstruction of Berlin after the Second World War was a quick patch-up job compared to us.

Imagine another 20-plus years of driving chaos, congestion, rerouted streets and a billion orange cones — though by 2035, they’ll probably be flying orange drones.

It’s impossible to even contemplate, so instead, let me put forth a radical and daring solution.

There’s simply too much work to get done in Montreal with 2 million of us living here, trying to get around, and it’s wearing us all out.

It’s time to close the island of Montreal for the six months of winter, and evacuate the population south, while the work gets done.