The city of Montreal says it will be going over budget by $1.5M on about a dozen road work sites because of the early winter.
Crews had to stop work on ten streets because of the snow last month - the city's point man on infrastructure Sylvain Ouellet said in a statement that they can usually count on November to be able to finish up any roadwork.
Now they have no choice but to shut down and temporarily pave over those streets that were supposed to have been done by the end of this year. The work will now have to be finished next year.
That means extra costs of $1.5M - about 1.6% of the total $94M worth of contracts.
The city said finishing these projects next year shouldn't delay other work sites.
The worksites are:
- Clark between Laurier and de l'Arcade Street
- Coleraine between Butler and Charon
- de Lanaudière between Rachel Est and Marie-Anne Est
- Drolet between de Liège and Guizot
- Jeanne-Mance between Mont-Royal and Villeneuve
- Lacordaire between Chauveau and Sherbrooke
- Meunier between Crémazie and Legendre
- Saint-Denis between Jean-Talon and Jarry
- Saint-Patrick between Wellington and Island
- Viau between Rosemont and Beaubien
The median on Clark between Laurier and Fairmount had to be redone this past summer because it was too big and made the street too narrow to accomodate emergency vehicles and existing parking spaces.
Residents on Jeanne-Mance had to go without water for days after waterpipes froze - they said the city should have stopped work sooner when the weather was getting colder. The city insisted the contractor fulfilled its obligations and did everything by the book.