Motorists in the Montreal area should prepare for significant overnight traffic disruptions this weekend as the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel undergoes scheduled maintenance work.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has announced that the tunnel will be closed from Friday at 11 p.m. until Saturday morning at 8 a.m. During this period, Highway 25 Montreal will be completely closed between Exit 90 and the entrance from Sherbrooke Street East. Exit 3 Notre-Dame and Hochelaga streets will also be inaccessible.<\/p>\n
In the southbound direction, Highway 25 will be closed between Exit 5 and the entrance from \u00cele Charron will be closed within the same overnight window.<\/p>\n
Additional closures are planned later in the weekend. Highway 20 westbound will be shut down overnight from Saturday at 10 p.m. until Sunday at 9 a.m., between Exit 102 and the entrance from Armand-Frappier Boulevard.<\/p>\n
Authorities are urging drivers to avoid the area and plan alternative routes to minimize delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists in the Montreal area should prepare for significant overnight traffic disruptions this weekend as the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-542824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}