Highway 15

Québécois interurban Highway, highway 15 or Highway Décarie in Montreal, Highway of Laurentides in the north of Montreal and Autoroute 15 South in the south of Montreal is a highway of the Québécois west. Currently, it is the only highway which crosses the Island of Montreal in the North-South axis (via the 40), it begins at the American border (Interstate 87) with Saint-Bernard-with-Lacolle and finishes with Holy-Agathe-of-Mounts (continuation towards Mount-Trembling), for a length of 164 km, of which 4 km shared with the Highway 40 (metropolitan Highway) on the Island of Montreal.

Highway 15 is divided into three sections. The southern section, the highway 15 South, connects the southern suburbs of Montreal and is the principal commercial corridor between New York and Montreal. In the past numbered Road 9, it becomes the Intersate 87 in the south of the border in the west of the Lake Champlain. With Brossard, it joined the Autoroute 10 and the Autoroute 20 before borrowing the Pont Champlain to cross the St. Lawrence River. The 10 separates immediately after the bridge, and the 20 further separates a few kilometers with the Turcot exchanger. The Champlain Bridge and a section of highway 15/20 in the north of this last, do not belong to the Ministry for the Transport of Quebec, but to the company the Bridges Jacques Cartier and Champlain Incorporée, subsidiary of the Company of the bridge federal Limitée, pertaining to the Canadian government.

The 15 continue in north like the Décarie highway, parallel to the Décarie boulevard (from where the name) until the Autoroute 40. This section crosses the heart of the district Our-Lady-of-Grace and is located under the level of the ground. Queen-Mary way to the Subway, it was built on a vast vacant ground, yielded to the city in the condition that this one serf only with the establishment of tram line. In 1959, the system of tram of Montreal was abolished, thus the ground was an excellent corridor for a highway. Thus, the highway was dug at this place. Following this change of vocation, the givers of the ground have continues the city, but lost their cause in court. In the south of the Queen-Mary way, several houses were expropriées and demolished, separating into two the district Our-Lady-of-Graces. To avoid the destruction of a church of the district, the highway dévit slightly towards the west at the level of the street Monkland. On the level of the street Saint-Jacob, to the approach of the exchanging Turcot and junction with the Highway 20 and the Highway 720, the highway passes from a highway into distinct to an elevated highway several meters. On this place, several imposing viaducts are superimposed and overlapped, which gave the idea to an operator of the court of Turcot sorting of the CN to call the structure " the Spaghetti" junction;.

Finally, the third section of highway 15, the highway of Laurentides, begins on the Subway and moves towards the area of the Laurentides while passing by Laval. The classification of the exits starts again to 1, because of the fact that the " two 15" in the beginning two different roads were. This highway, formerly with toll, fact part of the Transcanadienne and is the principal road bond between the metropolis and Laurentides, area tourist very appraisal. Its layout crosses the plates laurentiens until Holy-Agathe-of-Mounts where it finishes on the road 117. The latter continues on nearly 50 km until Labelle while being a four-lane road with separate roadway (fast track), but without carrying the title of highway. A small section of this section, with the height of Saint-Jovite (Mount-Trembling), has the characteristics of a highway and the exits are numbered following those of the 15. The highway of Laurentides was the first Québécois highway with being brought into service and this, under the control surface of the Prime Minister Maurice Duplessis in 1958. It was a turnpike until 1985.

Construction (Chronology)

Highway 15 South and Highway Décarie

Highway Subway (Overlapping)

Highway of Laurentides

Exchangers of the South in North

Highway 15 South

Highway Décarie

/ Highway Subway
Section shared with the Highway 40, classification of the 40.

Highway of Laurentides

Road 117

*Sortie not numbered, bases kilometric

Sources

Road atlas of luxury of Quebec

External bonds

Chart of the highway 15
Chart of the highway Décarie
Ministry for transport of Quebec
the Bridges Jacques Cartier and Champlain Built-in
List of the exits on Exitlists.com

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