Montreal Launches Blitz To Repair ‘catastrophic’ Number Of Potholes Plaguing Roadways - Beritaja

The City of Montreal says it’s launching a blitz successful the coming days to capable the galore potholes that are plaguing the streets.

Claude Pinard, chair of the city’s executive committee, says this wintertime is 1 of the worst for potholes since 2018, calling the authorities of the roadways “catastrophic.”

Pinard told reporters the metropolis has awarded 10 contracts without nationalist tenders to 3 companies to repair the roads wrong 8 days.

He says the contracts, totalling about $500,000, do not stipulate really galore potholes person to beryllium filled.

Over the past fewer weeks, Montreal drivers person been grappling pinch difficult roadworthy conditions aft a January lukewarm spell led to the accelerated statement of potholes crossed the city.

Earlier this week Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada posted a video connected societal media opinionated adjacent to a tow-truck driver and describing really she had conscionable blown 2 tires driving complete potholes.

CAA-Québec, a non-profit road-assistance organization, has said flat-tire work calls in Montreal and its Laval suburb jumped 75 per cent from Jan. 9-20 compared pinch the aforesaid play past year.

This study by BERITAJA was first published Feb. 5, 2026.