If you were told, when compared to the rest of the country, Quebec roads are in bad shape, you'd probably say "what else is new?"
How about in terms of roads in poor or very poor condition we're about double the national average.
In 2016, Stats Canada launched its first-ever catalogue of the state of the nation's infrastructure. It sent surveys to approximately 1,500 government organizations to take stock and get a picture of the condition of Canada's core public infrastructure assets.
Along with fun facts like Canada's road network is long enough to circle the Earth's equator more than 19 times and nearly half of all roads in Canada are in Ontario and Alberta, the report found Quebec's roads, highways; bridges and overpasses are not in the best of shape.
The study said about 35 per cent of the provinces highways were rated as being in poor or very poor condition.
Poor was classified as 'the asset is approaching end of service life,' while very poor was deemed 'the asset is unfit for sustained service.'
The national average was 17 per cent.
Quebec though was not the worst, as Nova Scotia reported nearly half (49%) of its highways to be in poor to very poor condition.
As for what the survey called 'arterial, collector and local roads' Quebec reported 43 per cent (highest), 38 per cent (second highest) and 24 per cent (fourth highest) of its networks in bad shape, with the Canadian averages coming in at 21 per cent, 20 per cent, 16 per cent. Again, Nova Scotia reported worse numbers than Quebec in two of the three categories (only coming in 0.4 per cent better on arterial road conditions).
In terms of bridges, overpasses and tunnels Quebec topped the bad list for tunnels (27%) and was second worst for bridges (27%), with Newfoundland and Labrador claiming the worst percentage of bridges (30%). The national average for both categories is 15 per cent and 14 per cent.