The City of Quebec will be able to prohibit the circulation of heavy trucks on boulevard Champlain, which runs along the Saint-Laurent river from Old Quebec to the Pierre-Laporte bridge, the Legault government decreed on Tuesday.
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Under the CAQ’s announcement, heavy transit traffic may be prohibited at all times on the boulevard, also known as Route 136, and not just between May 15 and October 31 as it is currently. the case.
In addition, the Minister of Transport, François Bonnardel, and the Deputy Premier and Minister responsible for the Capitale-Nationale, Geneviève Guilbault, indicated that the river shuttle service between Quebec and Lévis could well, in the future, be reserved to cyclists and pedestrians.
“Recall that with the commissioning of the Quebec-Lévis tunnel, planned over a 10-year horizon, it is projected that automobile traffic on the Quebec-Lévis crossing will become obsolete,” explained the office of the Minister of Transport.
Year after year, the “NM Alphonse-Desjardins” and “NM Lomer-Gouin” ferries carry 300,000 vehicles from one bank to the other, a flow destined to stop if the 3rd link sees the light of day.
“There is an opportunity to rethink the Québec-Lévis crossing and to find an enhanced vocation for this highly strategic land. The government is considering a vocation that would give citizens better access to the river and improve the regional tourist offer,” said Ms. Guilbault.
Reference-www.journaldequebec.com