Saint Antoine Street (officially in French : Rue Saint-Antoine ), formerly known as Craig Street , is a street located in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . It runs to the south of Downtown Montreal and north of Old Montreal and Griffintown and Saint-Henri . It crosses the Quartier international de Montréal . Between Atwater Avenue and Greene Avenue , the north side of the street is in Westmount .
15-503: Saint-Antoine Street is primarily a one-way street with traffic running westbound only from Jean d'Estrées Street (exit from the eastbound Ville-Marie expressway ) and eastbound only from Square Victoria . Between these two points, the traffic flows in both directions. The western terminus of Saint Antoine Street is at Saint Jacques Street in Saint-Henri . At the east the street leads onto Boulevard Ville-Marie (the street extension of
30-562: A junction with Autoroute 15 and Autoroute 20 , and its eastern terminus is near the Jacques Cartier Bridge ( Route 134 ), where the highway merges with Notre-Dame Street . The Autoroute Ville-Marie designation is named after the downtown borough of Ville-Marie , through which the expressway is routed. It was designated Autoroute 720 until 2021 when it was renamed to Route 136. Part of R-136 runs underground (below grade) through Downtown Montreal . This section begins from
45-643: A support pillar and closed several lanes of the expressway. Transports Quebec announced on August 10, 2007, major repair projects for a large section of the Expressway west of the Ville-Marie tunnel. On July 31, 2011, part of the roof of the Ville-Marie Tunnel collapsed, sending large chunks of concrete to the road below. This incident occurred at a time with little traffic and no vehicles were damaged. Several construction workers were on site at
60-658: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Quebec Route 136 (Montreal) Route 136 ( R-136 ), formerly Autoroute 720 , known as the Ville-Marie Expressway (English) or Autoroute Ville-Marie (French) is an Autoroute highway in the Canadian province of Quebec that is a spur route of Autoroute 20 in Montreal . Its western terminus is located at the Turcot Interchange ,
75-676: Is located in Montréal . Guy Street Guy Street (officially in French : rue Guy ) is a north-south street located in downtown Montreal , Quebec , Canada. Concordia University 's Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex is located on this street, as is the John Molson School of Business building. The street is home to the Guy-Concordia Metro station . Guy Street runs through
90-577: Is often used to refer to both tunnels. It was originally envisioned that Autoroute 20 would extend from the Turcot Interchange , along the route of the 720, to the Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge-Tunnel . Indeed, when the first section of the expressway was constructed and opened in the early 1970s, many Montrealers, anticipating that it would eventually replace the Metropolitan Expressway as
105-542: The Little Burgundy and Shaughnessy Village neighbourhoods, and the recently named Quartier Concordia district, before changing to Côte-des-Neiges Road , above Sherbrooke Street . The street was named on August 30, 1817 for Étienne Guy (1774–1820), a notary and member for the riding of Montreal in the Lower Canada Assembly. He gave the city the land for the street. Guy Street constituted
120-489: The Ville-Marie expressway) and onto Notre-Dame Street near the Jacques Cartier Bridge . West of the original boundaries of Montreal (what is now Old Montreal ), Saint Antoine Street was the main thoroughfare of a suburban area known as Faubourg Saint-Antoine, later Saint-Antoine Ward. Since 1799, the street was known as rue des Menuisiers , and the street bordered the land reserved for the city's fortifications between Saint Laurent Boulevard and Bleury Street . Following
135-469: The dismantlement of the fortifications in the first decade of the 19th century, rue des Menuisiers was incorporated as part of a road, 80 feet (24 metres) wide, that the commissioners built between the new Place des Commissaires (now known as Victoria Square) in the west, and Champ de Mars in the east. The road passed above an old river that was converted into a canal after the dismantlement of Montreal's fortifications. From 1817 to August 1976, this street
150-565: The extension were demolished at that time, even though the 720 was not completed due to cost constraints. The government of Montreal instead converted the portion of Rue Notre Dame east of the Jacques Cartier Bridge into a six-lane urban boulevard , rather than continue a sunken limited-access expressway. The final project was approved, and work began on Souligny Avenue to double the span of the travel lanes. In 2007, working crews for Transports Québec discovered major cracks in
165-605: The primary connector route to the Lafontaine Tunnel, and onward to Quebec City , dubbed the then-unnamed roadway the "Downtown Trans-Canada Highway ". The provincial transport ministry (Le ministère des Transports du Québec, or MTQ) had planned to extend the Viger Tunnel east to Autoroute 25 at its Souligny Avenue interchange. The right-of-way has existed since the original layout of the A-720, and buildings along
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#1732766051413180-473: The street while Lionel-Groulx, Lucien-L’Allier, Bonaventure, Gare Centrale, Place-D’Armes and Champ-de-Mars are right nearby. The 36 Monk serves most of the downtown portion of the street. 45°30′27″N 73°33′25″W / 45.507386°N 73.556905°W / 45.507386; -73.556905 This Montreal geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Quebec road, road transport or highway-related article
195-402: The time and were unharmed. The tunnel had to be closed for repair of the roof and several other parts of the tunnel. Transport Minister Sam Hamad announced on Friday, August 5 that the tunnel would re-open the following day. In 2021, the A-720 was renamed to Route 136 due to the highway having reduced lane sizes following the reconstruction of the Turcot Interchange . The entire route
210-489: The west at Rue Guy (exit 4: Rue de la Montagne / Rue Atwater ) and remains underground almost all the way to its eastern end, except for a short section between Rue Saint-Urbain and Rue Hôtel-de-Ville. The tunnelled section west of this gap is known as the Ville-Marie Tunnel , and the section east of it is known as Viger Tunnel . However, locals regard both tunnels as one, and the term Ville-Marie Tunnel
225-486: Was named Craig Street , after Sir James Henry Craig , Governor General of British North America and Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada from 1807 to 1811. The street was renamed in 1976 to bear the same name as its western portion (at a time when there was a tendency in Montreal to rename streets after French figures and places). Square-Victoria–OACI , Georges-Vanier and Lucien-L’Allier train station are located on
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