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Montreal Plugged Over 111,000 Potholes This Spring — Now The City Looks Less Like The Moon

Montreal is emerging from a successful battle with perhaps its greatest scourge: the pothole. The city is trumpeting a pothole-filling season that saw workers plug a whopping 111,000 cracks, gaps and pits on major thoroughfares — not counting work to fill holes on smaller local streets.

The operation cost $2.5 million this year. That's on top of the $880.6 million the city has earmarked for special road resurfacing efforts meant to better prevent potholes from emerging in the first place.

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Montreal's Infamous Potholes Will Wreck Your Car — Here's How To Protect It

That loud clunk when you roll over a ginormous pothole is one of the most recognizable and dreaded noises for a Quebec driver. With Montreal tire change season approaching and temperatures rising, potholes are set to proliferate on city streets. CAA-Québec, which ranks the worst roads in the province, has tips on how to avoid vehicle damage when you do encounter a dip in the road during your drive.

"Driving over a pothole can cause a lot of damage to your car, starting with the tires… [It] can break the interior structure, tear the sidewall, or both," CAA-Québec spokesperson David Marcille told MTL Blog.

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Every Pothole In Montreal? There's A New Interactive Map For That

A new interactive Montreal map is paving the way for smoother drives and bike rides in the city. The Montreal Pothole Reporting Tool is collecting data to warn drivers and cyclists about the bumpiest paths in the city and to keep an up-to-date record about when they're fixed.

But the site needs more traffic to fill in the gaps. Outside of the downtown, areas like the West Island and Montreal North need more input to complete the picture.

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The 2022 List Of Quebec's Worst Roads Is Out & Somehow Montreal Didn't Take First Place

Quebec's worst road is rather aptly named — and somehow not in Montreal. Boulevard de la Gappe in Gatineau has been voted the worst road in the province for 2022, according to CAA-Quebec. Nearly 8,500 Quebecers participated in this year's annual Worst Roads poll, which suggests the questionable state of roads in Montreal is actually a province-wide problem.

In fact, local streets didn't even make the top 10 list. Route du Vieux-Moulin in Saint-Isidore and Boulevard du Curé-Labelle in Saint-Jérôme rounded out the top three, with Chemin Cook in Gatineau and Avenue Sainte-Brigitte in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval (near Quebec City) filling in the fourth and fifth spots.

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Montreal's Giant Ring Is Being Compared To A Certain Sex Toy (Among Other Things)

Chicago has the Bean. Montreal has a giant c**k ring? At least a few dozen social media users are seeing a resemblance between the sex toy and Montreal's forthcoming The Ring, a 50,000-pound stainless steel sculpture set to tower above downtown Montreal's Esplanade PVM and avenue McGill College.

But that's not all. Others have likened the sculpture to an intergalactic portal.

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