If you're looking for a way to sum up the state of Quebec's roads look no further than the 1997 song released by Christopher George Latore Wallace, a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G., "Mo Money Mo Problems."
Despite committing more money recently to improve the province's highways and other provincial routes, the overall condition of the network is slowly getting worse and the patch jobs done each year are not helping.
The latest data released by the Transport Ministry shows that only half of roads under provincial jurisdiction get a passing grade of satisfactory or very good.
The other half can be split between a D rating (23%) bad or the lowest possible E rating (27%) - very bad.
If you add it all up the near 31,000 kilometers of roadways get a C or satisfactory grade.
As for the more than 5,400 bridges, tunnels and other structures in Quebec, they too need plenty of work.
More than half (51%) of the networks structures, including the Charles-de-Gaulle Bridge, came in below satisfactory because of significant deterioration.
According to the latest assessment it would cost close to $15 billion to "fix" our highways and bridges, with about $1 billion of that for the Montreal area alone.