Gatineau streets lead CAA-Quebec’s worst roads list, Montreal misses top 10

Motorists steer past a pothole on a Montreal street. (Paul Chiasson / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

CAA-Quebec has unveiled its 2025 list of the worst roads in the province.

This year, not a single Montreal street made the top 10, but the same can’t exactly be said for those in the Gatineau-Outaouais region.

The top 10 worst roads, as voted by Quebecers, are:

• du Contour-du-Lac-à-Beauce Road (La Tuque - Mauricie)
• Klock Road (Gatineau - Outaouais)
• Notch Road (Chelsea - Outaouais)
• Cook Road (Gatineau - Outaouais)
• Pink Road (Gatineau - Outaouais)
• Rang Petit-Capsa (Pont-Rouge - Capitale-Nationale)
• du Lac-Saint-François Road (Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup - Bas-Saint-Laurent)
• Hamilton Road (Inverness - Centre-du-Québec)
• des Laurentides Street (Gatineau - Outaouais)
• Route Principale (Wentworth-Nord - Laurentides)

According to CAA-Quebec, a total of $759.4 million was invested in Quebec’s road network from 2022 to 2023.

“This investment made it possible to carry out work on 1,478 km of pavement in 2022,” it notes. “Including 897 km of repair work to correct pavement deficiencies, 314 km of palliative work to temporarily restore severely deteriorated pavements to good condition, and 267 km of preventive work to preserve pavements in good condition and thus extend their useful life.”

Divided by region, the five worst roads in Montreal were:

• Notre-Dame Street East
• de l’Acadie Boulevard
• Ellerdale Street
• Sherbrooke Street East
• Christophe-Colomb Avenue
• Metropolitan Highway (40)

In the surrounding Montérégie region, several streets made the list in Longueuil, as well as in Brossard and Carignan.

• Highway 116 (Longueuil, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Mont-Saint-Hilaire and Saint-Hyacinthe)
• Highway 30 (Sorel-Tracy and Brossard)
• Grande Allée (Longueuil)
• de la Cité-des-Jeunes Boulevard (Vaudreuil-Dorion)
• de Chambly Road (Longueuil)
• Lakeview Street (Hudson)
• Taschereau Boulevard (Brossard)
• du Lac-Saint-François Road (Saint-Zotique)
• Victoria Avenue (Longueuil)
• Bellerive Road (Carignan)
• de la Grande-Ligne Road (Carignan)

In Laval, the roads that received the most votes were:

• de la Concorde Est Boulevard
• des Mille-Îles Boulevard
• Marc-Aurèle-Fortin Boulevard

According to Quebec’s Transport Ministry (MTMD), the province has more than 31,000 km of road, including 6,000 km of highway and 9,000 km of national roads

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On average, the ministry says it invests nearly $10 million yearly for pothole repairs, using almost 15,000 tonnes of asphalt to patch pavements.