Turcot Interchange
Revitalizing a major Montreal transportation node is “a huge 3D puzzle”
By Sarah B. Hood
The Turcot Interchange is the gateway to southwest-ern
Montreal. Since freight and passengers entering
the island city by rail or road have a limited choice
of routes, more than 300,000 vehicles per day pass
through this dense transportation network. It is the connec-tion
point for three highways, access to the Champlain Bridge
and the ground route to Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau
International Airport. Montreal’s main rail lines also pass
through the area.
But after decades of service, the Turcot Interchange was
in need of rejuvenation, so, along with the Angrignon, De La
PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
Vérendrye and Montréal-Ouest interchanges, it has become
part of the Turcot Project, one of the most complex trans-portation
infrastructure upgrades ever carried out in the
province of Québec. Ongoing since 2015, it is a massive oper-ation
taking place on four sites at once. The work is about
60 per cent complete and is scheduled to finish at the end
of 2020.
“Turcot is like a huge 3D puzzle, so everything happens
at the same time,” said Sébastien Marcoux, deputy project
director for KPH Turcot, the company responsible for the
design-build part of the project. “We’re talking about five
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