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Autoroute 15 - Ville Mont-Royal

A subtle stretch of autoroute Décarie (highway 15, between the 20 and 40), which is the main artery bringing traffic to downtown Montreal from the north, belongs in Ville Mont-Royal (Town Mount Royal – or TMR). In fact, few people realize that between what was formerly Ville-St-Laurent (now a borough of Montreal) and Côte-St-Luc, lies a outgrowth of TMR that mostly consists of industries, including Kraft Foods’ Montreal factory (it might smell of KD cheese mix when you pass on the nearby highway 40), and the Biotechnology Research Institute of the National Research Council Canada (BRI-NRC pour les intimes).

Picture taken tonight on the Royalmount Avenue overpass above highway 15, where motorists just pass through TMR.

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2 comments

  1. Great photo, anf great commentary on the area.

  2. That area would benefit enormously when the Cavendish-to-Cavendish link happens eventually. There would be much more linkage with Cote Saint-Luc (where I’m from) and with the industrial area of Saint-Laurent.

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