Turcot Interchange

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Turcot Interchange
Approaching the Turcot Interchange from southbound A-15
Location
Montreal, Quebec
Coordinates	45°28′04″N 73°35′58″W / 45.467776°N 73.599472°W / 45.467776; -73.599472
Roads at junction	A-15 (Autoroute Décarie) A-20 (Autoroute du Souvenir) R-136 (Autoroute Ville-Marie)
Construction
Type	Stack interchange
Constructed	1965 – 1967 2008 – 2020
Opened	April 1967 (1967)

The Turcot Interchange is a three-level four-way freeway interchange within the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Located southwest of downtown, the interchange links Autoroutes 15 (Décarie and Décarie South Expressways) and 20 (Remembrance Highway), and Route 136 (Ville-Marie Expressway), and provides access to the Champlain Bridge via the Décarie South Expressway. It takes its name from the nearby Philippe-Turcot Street and Turcot village, which were in turn named after Philippe Turcot (1791–1861) who was a merchant owning land in Saint-Henri.^[1]

Turcot is the largest interchange in the province and the third busiest interchange of Montreal (after Décarie and Anjou Interchanges, respectively) as of 2010, with numbers averaging a north-southbound flow of 278,000 approximate daily drivers, and over 350,000 west-eastbound in total. Moreover, Turcot is an occasional spot for road accidents, as speed is limited to only 70 km/h (43 mph) on any of the interchange's directions, and the limit is often disregarded by the night drivers going over 100 km/h (62 mph).

The interchange underwent an extensive reconstruction commencing in 2015 which was completed by fall 2020.^[2][3][4] The $3.7-billion project is the largest roadwork in the province's history.^[5]