Montrealers who think the city does construction work over and over on the same streets: it’s not your imagination.

The Gazette has reviewed a handful of recent roadwork projects to understand how and why this phenomenon occurs. Here is Case No. 4.

St-Urbain St., Plateau-Mont-Royal borough

The city began installing a three-kilometre “sustainable mobility corridor” on St-Urbain St., between Bernard and Milton Sts., this year. The project widens an existing bike path and adds bollards and concrete barriers. It also adds bus stop bays, a reserved public transit bus lane during morning rush hour and brings traffic lights up to standard. The $5-million project, to be completed in December 2026, removes nearly 450 parking spaces. But the installations are temporary. St-Urbain has a 140-year-o

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