'Absolutely absurd': Highway 20 closure leads to missed flights, hours stuck in traffic for Montreal commuters
CTV
The shutdown of a section of the highway led to major traffic heading west this holiday weekend, with some even missing their flights at the Montreal-Trudeau airport.
If you were on the Hwy. 20 West, your long weekend probably felt a lot longer.
The shutdown of a section of the highway led to major traffic heading west this holiday weekend, with some even missing their flights at the Montreal-Trudeau airport.
"It’s horrible. It’s horrible what can I say," one traveller on the 20 told CTV News.
It was bumper-to-bumper with crawling cars, impatient drivers and one very anxious group of CEGEP students.
On Saturday, Anais Yaghmour was in a car with her fellow college students from Sherbrooke. They left Montreal at 2 p.m. for a 6 p.m. flight to Greece but traffic wasn’t moving.
"People started getting out of the car because they had to go to the toilet so badly," Yaghmour said.
What should have been a 20-minute drive to the airport took four hours.
