Transport in Quebec

Quebec has transport infrastructures which it did not know to modernize, contrary to several European countries or Asian. Consequently, the development of its areas is continuously called in question. Its highway network is however developed better than that of Ontario with approximately 185000 km of highway networks. Quebec also has 8 ports, more than 6640 km of railways (especially for goods transport) and 43 airports.

The Highway network includes/understands approximately 185000 km of highways, of trunk roads, regional, of streets and local ways, and nearly 12.000 bridges, tunnels, walls retaining, culverts and other constructions. Essential component of the Québécois economy, the highway network links all the regions, but If it is dense, its state requires considerable investments before it can truly allow the rise of the regional economies. Employment disappears in area to be created in Montreal.

The ports contribute to the Québécois economy while making possible the import and the export of raw materials and products of all kinds. One finds in Quebec eight deep water ports intended for the transshipment of the goods. In 2003, 3886 cargo liners and 9,7 million tons of goods forwarded by the Québécois portion of the Sea route of the St. Lawrence. The incomes generated by this traffic amount with more than 90 million dollars. The port of Montreal is the most important port with containers in Quebec. It is located on one of the greatest inland waterways at the world, the St. Lawrence river. It is also the third in importance of the north-eastern portion of the North America. Thanks to its 17.600 employment, direct and indirect, it generates annual incomes of approximately two billion dollars. The port of the Town of Quebec, located inside the continent at some 1.370 kilometers of the Atlantic ocean , saw its growth increasing in a fulgurating way. With the increase in the level of water, the access to that of Montreal will become less accessible because of the bridges. Also, the Wearing of deep water Quebec (15,5 meters) can accommodate ships exceeding 150 000 tons, and this, throughout the year. One also finds deep water ports with Three-Rivers, Bécancour and Sorel-Tracy like with Bay-Comeau, Port-Cartier and Seven-Islands. The latter are specialized in the handling of the cargoes in bulk and the heavy goods.

Quebec also has 6645 km of railways which are integrated into the great North-American railway network. Although mainly intended for the transport of the goods, the Québécois railway network plays a big role in the transport of the passengers. During the year 2000, more than 4000 employees worked there. Recently, the authorities started to develop the suburban trains, but it is always necessary nearly fourteen hours to traverse the 1000 km which separate Montreal from Gaspésie and it is difficult to find a train connecting Quebec, the capital, in Montreal, after eighteen hours.

In Quebec, one finds two types of overhead grid: the higher network and the lan. The higher network includes/understands 43 airports which offer regular services on a daily basis. Three airports are located in the great urban centres, seven others serve the distant regional centres and 33 ensure the services in the localities wedged or moved away. In 2003, the international airports Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau (Dorval) and Mirabel of the area of Montreal saw forwarding 8,9 million passengers and 242.641 tons metric of goods. The International airport Jean-Lesage serves more than one million people.

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