Highway 20

The highway 20 is a Québécois interurban highway also indicated like the highway Jean-Lesage . It constitutes one of the principal road bonds of the Canadian province of the Quebec, connecting the towns of Montreal and Quebec parallel to the Autoroute 40. Highway 20 is the main axis of the Corridor Quebec-Windsor in its Québécois section.

Jean-Lesage highway

Highway 20 serves the areas of the Montérégie, of Montreal, the Center-of-Quebec, the Boiler-Appalachian Mountains and the Low-St-Laurent. With its 550 kilometers, it is currently the longest Québécois highway. All in all, it skirts southern bank of the Fleuve the St. Lawrence.

At present, there exist two sections distinct from highway 20, separated from approximately 80 km (50 miles). Those should be joined together from here 2015.

The first section, the principal one, begins at the border Quebec - Ontario close to River-Beaudette in Montérégie. It is the continuation of the Ontarian Highway MacDonald-Cartier (highway 401). It finishes with Cacouna, with approximately 15 kilometers in the east of River-of-Wolf. This section of 521 kilometers length to roadways is separated over its length, it has four ways on the majority its length and six ways in the areas of Montreal and Quebec.

Two sectors do not respect the standards of a Autoroute:

- The 20 takes the shape of an urban boulevard on ten kilometers (kilometer 30 to 38) in the towns of Vaudreuil-Dorion and the Island-Perrot. The speed limit is of 50 km/h (30 mph) with Vaudreuil-Dorion and 70 km/h (45 mph) with the Island-Perrot. It is envisaged to transform this section into true highway, and this, in spite of the fact that the Autoroute 30 will make it possible to sail round the Island of Montreal in 2009.

- With St-Hyacinthe, there is a level crossing (intersection with the railroad). Previously, there were some several, but they have is replaced by viaducts or simply removed.

The second section begins 80 km in the east from the section principal, with the Bic, on the road 132. Since the last prolongation in 2003, it finishes with Holy-Luce on the road 298. This section was originally built to circumvent the town of Rimouski. It makes 31 kilometers length (19 semi), and will make 42 kilometers (26 millet `them) when that the Mount-Pretty prolongation until will be completed. This section is a highway with only one roadway and two or three ways.

It is expected that the two sections meet in 2015, according to the plan of official transport of the Low-St-Laurent. This new section will be with only one roadway. Once joined together, highway 20 will make 641 kilometers length. No prolongation is envisaged in the Mount-Pretty east of .

The section of highway 20 between the Highway 25 with Longueuil (left 90) and the Highway 85 with River-of-Wolf (left 499) belonged to the Road transcanadienne.

Fact cocasse, between the road 138 (left 63) and the Autoroute 15 (left 68), the vehicles circulate on the left side of the road, instead of the right-sided. The two roadways are separated by a railroad.

On the island of Montreal, with the height of the Highway 15, the 20 was initially to pass to the current site of the highway City-Marie (720), to continue beyond the Papineau avenue, to go to join the Souligny avenue then the Autoroute 25 for thus turning over on the Bank-South towards the 20 current one via the Bridge-tunnel Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine. The Autoroute 20 on the Bank-South was to name the Autoroute 430. This project was abandoned for fault of budget.

Highway 20 is used as backdrop with the Québécois film with success Quebec-Montreal where various intrigues are tied and untie themselves for travellers the time of the way between the two Québécois main cities.

Highway of Remembering

The November 2007, the first Quebecer Jean Charest announced that the section of the 20 between the Ontario-Quebec border and exit 39 close to Holy-Anne-with-Bellevue will be famous l'Autoroute of Souvenir (in English, Remembrance Highway ) in the honor of the dead combatants. This section of the highway will connect with another highway named for the same reason: the Highway of the heroes in the Ontario.

The idea to re-elect the section viennait of a naval war veteran who carried out in the Second world war, Ivan Robertson of Gaspé, and a committee of the Quebec ordering of the Canadian royal Légion. There will be green signs with the length of the highway which would tighten a poppy and the legend “Highway of Remembering”.

Construction (chronology)

The Pont Champlain was inaugurated in 1962, but the first section of the 20 was open in 1964.

Highway Jean-Lesage and Highway of the Memory

Left the west in the east

Highway 20 and Highway Jean-Lesage

Sections projected between Cacouna and Three-Spray

No layout of planned for the section between Three-Spray and the Biro.

existing Section in the area of Rimouski

During the overlapping with the 15, the numbers of exit are those of the 15. (kilometers 68 to 78)
During the overlapping with the 132, the numbers of exit are those of the 132 (beginning with the Pont Champlain). (kilometers 78 to 90)
exit 53 of the 15, is numbered 6 on the 10 and 77 out of the 20.

Sources

Road atlas of luxury of Quebec

External bonds

Chart of highway 20
Chart of highway 20 in Montreal
Chart of highway 20 in Rimouski
Gallery of photograph of highway 20
Ministry for transport of Quebec
List of the exits on Exitlists.com

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