“We had a report from the Caisse which said that out of five routes, the least worst is between the port and the island [d’Orléans]. François Legault said: we are going to build a bridge there. Finally, it seems that everything is open: bridge, tunnel, any route, but no further than the island,” illustrated the leader of the official opposition, Claude Villeneuve, before joining the council. municipal.
He was reacting to the most recent outing, Friday, from the Minister of Transport Geneviève Guilbault, on the upcoming launch of a call for interest for the construction of a possible third motorway link. However, the version of the “new inter-river link” still needs to be perfected.
With all the options back on the Legault government’s working table, the leader of the municipal opposition expresses skepticism that is at least apparent. Asked if he truly believes in the return of the third link, Mr. Villeneuve responds with a sigh and a long reflection.
“We had a single tube, a twin tube and each time, we have to comment on things that don’t happen. I don’t know what to tell you anymore.”
— Claude Villeneuve, leader of the opposition
If the very idea of a motorway link is “not niochone» and “legitimate”, the political opponent of Mayor Bruno Marchand considers, however, that no project meeting all the criteria he defends has so far been presented.
“I have yet to see a project that checks all the boxes. I will believe it when I see it,” he maintained, speaking in particular of a project which would allow the development of the Port, the redevelopment of the Dufferin-Montmorency highway into an urban boulevard and the creation of a fourth phase of the Samuel-De Champlain promenade.
The mayor of Quebec, Bruno Marchand, must speak before joining the municipal council.