BRENDA O’FARRELL
The 1019 Report
Cité des Jeunes Boulevard will be getting a major overhaul beginning this week, including the construction of two major round-abouts to accommodate easier traffic flow in anticipation of the opening of the new Vaudreuil-Soulanges Hospital.
The work, originally announced last summer, is one of 14 projects in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges region catalogued by Transport Quebec in an announcement earlier this month that listed 766 projects across the province that will be carried out over the next two years, including 121 roadway improvements in the Montérégie totalling $1.1 billion. No specific figures were provided for each project.
The round-abouts on Cité des Jeunes will be built at the intersections of De La Gare Boulevard and Henry Ford Street in Vaudreuil-Dorion, beginning later this month.
It is all part of a larger $59-million plan that will include the redesign of two intersections on De La Gare by the entrance to the hospital and at the junction of Highway 30, which have been partially completed, as well as the construction of a path for cyclists and pedestrians between Harwood and De La Gare.
The section of Cité des Jeunes that runs east of De La Gare Boulevard will also be widened along a length of about 1.5 kilometres — between Henry Ford and Bill Durnan Street. This section will be widened from a two-lane road, with one lane in each direction, to four lanes, with two lanes in each direction, along with a pedestrian and cycling path. This work is being carried out by the City of Vaudreuil-Dorion.
Work will last 30 weeks, according to Vaudreuil-Dorion Mayor Paul Dumoulin, which puts the scheduled completion date in November. A number of road closures in the sector are planned during that period.
“It’s going to be very difficult for traffic in that sector,” Dumoulin said in a statement.
In a later phase, scheduled for 2027 and 2028, Transport Quebec will modify three intersections along Cité des Jeunes in St. Lazare to add exit lanes to help accommodate an anticipated increase in traffic flow along the artery, which will be completely resurfaced from Ste. Angèlique Road in St. Lazare to De La Gare Boulevard in Vaudreuil-Dorion by 2028.
And in Rigaud
Another project for the region included in Transport Quebec’s list of improvements is a plan to rebuild the overpass above Highway 40 at Chemin de la Baie in Rigaud. The work is listed in the projects that will cost between $10 million and $25 million. No exact figures were provided.
In all, Transport Quebec plans seven roadwork improvement projects in Vaudreuil-Soulanges in 2026-2028, including seven projects in Vaudreuil-Dorion, three in Rigaud, and minor upgrades in Coteau du Lac, Rivière Beaudette, Ste. Justine de Newton and Pointe Fortune.
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This is what the round-abouts along Cité des Jeunes at De La Gare and Henry Ford in Vaudreuil-Dorion will look like.
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Transport Quebec