Removal of stop signs during rush hours
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We wish to inform motorists that tomorrow morning a police officer will be posted near the stop signs on the detour road joining Route 138 and Route 132, from 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m., in order to remove the mandatory stop during the morning rush hours.
Our goal is to improve the free flow of traffic and also to resolve the issues that have been identified. This police officer will be in place until a more permanent solution is found. The traffic light delays (managed manually) will also be shared in a more efficient manner between Route 132 and Route 138.
We take this opportunity to thank all users for having called in or written to us. Please be assured that we will continue to take your comments into consideration and that our objective is to ensure that traffic is managed as effectively as possible despite the ongoing repair work on the access ramp to the Mercier Bridge from Châteauguay.
Striping work will also be done shortly in order to improve the current configuration of the Route 138 and Route 207 junction towards the detour road, which enables access to the Mercier Bridge.
August 7th, 2009 at; 2:07 pm
@ Patricia Gauthier
We are currently correcting the situation in order to allow users to drive freely without having to slow down between 5:30 AM and 9:30 AM (during rush hour) and especially to avoid confusion. We will therefore make sure that stops signs be covered until the end of rush hour every morning. Thank you for your understanding.
August 5th, 2009 at; 10:47 am
Since Monday, the stop sign on the 138 is no longer covered during the morning hour rush hour (6 am). Has there been a change? Will the stop sign continue to be used during the morning? Please let me know.
July 16th, 2009 at; 4:33 pm
We are almost a month into the 138 ramp closure and there is never any sign of work being done on the ramp. (…)
July 10th, 2009 at; 8:10 am
I totally agree with Joel as far as banning trucks from Mercier Bridge during this 4-month detour period. They do have alternate routes that they could use and that would definitely reduce the waiting time in traffic.
Also, I am pleased to see the stop signs covered during the rush hour, but I am afraid to say that it has not improved the waiting time in traffic from the 138. I believe it is because now the delay is no longer at the stop signs but now it is at the light at the merge with the 132. Before, we never had the lengthy delays at this light that we do now.
No matter what, it seems like we are doomed to a traffic line-up of between 30 minutes and 45 minutes if we live in Chateauguay.
By the way, I very seldom see people working on the bridge in the morning. Is the work still on schedule?
July 9th, 2009 at; 9:05 am
Now that you have resolved a known issue on the 138, can we look at the 132 access from Ste-Catherine. As it stands right now, there is signage prohibiting trucks from using the left lane from the light in Kahnawake (near the Big Bear shop) all the way to the lights at the base of the bridge. Once trucks arrive to the access ramp, they are then prohibited from using the right lane and need to merge over to the left lane causing more unnecessary delays that could have been avoided had they been restricted to the left lane further down the road. Perhaps the trucks need to be restricted to the left lane from highway 30 all the way to the bridge. This would create a “car only” right lane and allow for much better flow…
On another note, the flow of traffic is severely impacted by the number of trucks using the Mercier on any given day and during major construction periods such as this one, it is clearly evident that the time it takes for these trucks to get moving adds a significant number of delays. Has anyone ever thought of denying trucks access to the Mercier between 6:30am and 9:00am during this 4-month period? I don’t see why I should have to sit in an additional 20-30 minutes of traffic, in the middle of summer because trucks don’t want to be deviated to the Champlain or Jacques-Cartier bridges.