Orange cones, detours, and gridlock. For many Montrealers, it’s just part of daily life. As the city races to fix its aging infrastructure, frustration is growing over how long the work takes and how poorly it’s coordinated.

“Yeah, really tough. Driving rough time,” said one Montrealer.

Another saying, “Stop doing more road work and putting up signs everywhere, there have been signs over there for like six weeks and nothing’s been done.”

Experts say the frustration is justified and that the city’s mobility problems go deeper than just too many cones.

“Mobility is kind of a misnomer because it’s not very efficient and not very mobile. One should use the word ‘fluidity’…. but that, unfortunately, is often not the case,” said Rick Leckner, a traffic consultant.

Leckner says coordination

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