Week in Review: Turcot woes, bus mayhem, construction pain, short-lived surplus

Catch up on what stories you might have missed this week in Montreal.The mayhem that wasn’t: Commuters heed warnings to avoid Turcot
It was even a surprise to Quebec’s transport ministry that so many motorists seemed to heed the warnings of gridlock and stayed off the roads. Transport Quebec spokesperson Martin Girard said the department saw nothing remotely close to the eight kilometres of gridlock its traffic-prediction models had forecast. In some parts of the city, traffic was e