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CTV News
17-06-2025
- CTV News
Plan ahead! Major construction projects planned at Montreal Airport
Travellers walk through traffic with their luggage as they try to catch their flights at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport, in Montreal, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press) Travellers passing through the Montreal Airport (ADM) in the coming months and years will need to be patient or plan their trips carefully if they want to ensure they arrive at the terminal on time. 'The airport site was not designed to accommodate so many cars. Drop-off areas are overused, parking spaces are insufficient, congestion is frequent and it even backs up onto the highway,' explained Jérôme Conraud, one of the airport planning managers at ADM. 'Last year, we had 22.5 million passengers, and traffic continues to grow,' he said during a meeting with the media on Tuesday morning. In recent years, several news reports have shown passengers stuck in traffic jams on the highway, forced to continue on foot so as not to miss their flights. Montreal airport headaches Travellers walk through traffic with their luggage as they try to catch their flights at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport, in Montreal, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press) The airport has launched several projects that will take place over several years to improve traffic flow, but this work will inevitably have an impact on traffic. 'We are really getting down to business, starting major investment projects aimed at improving the airport, enhancing the user experience, and making the airport more connected and accessible,' said Conraud. 'If people don't follow our advice, it may be a headache to get to YUL,' said Anne Marcotte, YUL's director of public relations, during a technical briefing for the media. In the coming months and years, ADM will reconfigure certain road accesses, build new drop-off areas, demolish the current large multi-storey car park to build a new one further away, add parking spaces, add a satellite pier and expand the baggage hall, build a rainwater retention basin south of the airport and welcome the REM. Mitigation measures Mitigation measures will be put in place starting in the summer of 2025. 'This summer, we will begin closing certain access ramps. At the end of the year, we will demolish and close the multi-storey car park and put in place a number of mitigation measures to help users get through this period,' said Conraud. Two alternative drop-off points, called 'express,' served by a shuttle service that runs on a dedicated road to access the terminal, have been set up. Visitors dropping off or picking up travellers are therefore asked to use these drop-off points. 'Try them, it will save you from getting stuck in traffic,' said Conraud. The first 40 minutes are now free in most car parks to prevent visitors from adding to congestion by waiting in their cars in front of the terminal. 'One habit we would like to avoid and correct is when people come to pick someone up at the terminal and drive around in circles on the network. Twenty-five per cent of motorists drive around the network more than once, which contributes to congestion. So you have to go to the express drop-off points or the free parking lots,' added Cornaud. A virtual waiting area for taxis and Uber has also been designed to prevent multiple vehicles from blocking traffic in front of the terminal. This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on June 17, 2025.
Montreal Gazette
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Montreal Gazette
Letters: More doctors likely to flee under CAQ plan
Re: ' Doctors face a whole new game of hardball ' (Allison Hanes, May 9) Beneath the verbal window dressing, Quebec's latest health legislation does not seem like a plan to extend primary care to every Quebecer — it looks like a plan to ration medical care, given that doctors are a scarce resource in Quebec. If this plan becomes law, I expect doctors will become even scarcer. Elaine Bander, Montreal Airport expansion is a good thing There has been much anguish about the expansion of Trudeau airport and the loss of such buildings as the Manoir Kanisha pet boarding centre. Pet facilities and other buildings can be relocated, but an airport may be expanded only onto contiguous property that fits within the efficient layout of runways and support facilities — it cannot be piecemeal across the city. In the mid-1800s, Emperor Napoleon III created Paris's magnificent boulevards by demolishing narrow streets and buildings that had grown randomly over centuries, to the anguish of many Parisians. Would anyone now say Paris should revert to its earlier form? The charm, the heart of the city, rests upon these great boulevards. In the 21st century, a city without a modern, well-designed airport will slowly suffocate. Montreal must expand its airport; otherwise, it risks becoming a quaint backwater. David Grogan, Old Montreal A celebration, not a protest As organizers of the annual Israel Day Celebration, we would like to thank The Gazette for its interest and coverage of our event. However, we are very disappointed that you gave the presence and message of the few protesters who showed up at our event so much weight. To begin with, you classified these people as 'counter-protesters' when they were actually the protesters. In order to have a counter protest there has to be a protest to counter. Our event is not a protest — it is a celebration, no different than Canada Day, the Fourth of July or Cinqo de Mayo. We were having a party (for which we had all the required permits) and they were across the street protesting, chanting and defaming the thousands of people celebrating. While your reporters took pains to quote their chants, sadly we saw few citations from the thousands who gathered to celebrate. We should also note this celebration took place on May Day, when major cities around the world contend with general anarchy, physical destruction and violent clashes between police and a hodgepodge of activists that leave a wake of damage and expense to local businesses and governments. On the other hand, we celebrated on a weekday, with joy and revelry, left our spaces in better shape than they were when we arrived, and left a trail of nothing but smiles and warm greetings. Michael Druckman, co-chair of the Israel Day Celebration, Montreal Time to revisit transfer payments? If Bloc Québécois Leader Yves François Blanchet believes he is in an 'artificial country,' maybe Alberta should send 'artificial transfer payments.' Anthony Edwin Sura, Calgary Submitting a letter to the editor Letters should be sent by email to letters@ We prioritize letters that respond to, or are inspired by, articles published by The Gazette. If you are responding to a specific article, let us know which one. Letters should be sent uniquely to us. The shorter they are — ideally, fewer than 200 words — the greater the chance of publication. Timing, clarity, factual accuracy and tone are all important, as is whether the writer has something new to add to the conversation. We reserve the right to edit and condense all letters. Care is taken to preserve the core of the writer's argument. Our policy is not to publish anonymous letters, those with pseudonyms or 'open letters' addressed to third parties. Letters are published with the author's full name and city or neighbourhood/borough of residence. Include a phone number and address to help verify identity; these will not be published. We will not indicate to you whether your letter will be published. If it has not been published within 10 days or so, it is not likely to be.
