A-25 has a missing freeway link through northeastern Montréal. Until it's completed, A-25 jogs west on Boulevard Henri-Bourassa Est before heading north on Boulevard Pie-IX and running with A-440 to where 440 will eventually end alone (right now, it ends multiplexed). I say "will eventually," because the A-25 missing link isn't dead and may be solved soon by a toll bridge. If you think this is the whole story, the signs below and on the A-40 page (linked at bottom) will confuse you. Apparently, A-25's first temporary routing was along A-40 instead of on Boul. Henri-Bourassa, and then straight up Boul. Pie-IX/QC 125 to the bridge. When I first visited in 2001, a lot of the signs from that first routing remained, but were altered to help you follow the new route.


NB at A-40. That's not 8 times 0 (which is just 0, as we all know), that's actually 8W (west) in French (ouest), and as you can see the greenout is a much more effective way of telling traffic to continue straight for A-25 than the red tape seen on the A-40 page (linked below).


QC 125 NB, Boulevard Pie-IX (Pius IX). It's famous for being a major north-south (in Montréal directions, which translates to roughly west-east) corridor on the eastern Island of Montréal. QC 125 between A-40 and the northern shore had been Temporary A-25 for awhile, but now 25 follows the more direct route of finishing off the Boulevard Louis-H.-Lafontaine freeway to Boulevard Henri-Bourassa. Anyway, this photo is on this page because of the A-25 shield in the corner, but the reason I took it is the unique traffic signals - notice that left and right arrows are located outside the outer red square. It looks logical enough on the through signals, but very odd on the left-turn signal, since the yellow circle stays inside the red squares.


Sortie 20 is along the north side of Ile Jésus, the island that has Laval and other Montréal suburbs on its southwest two-thirds but is mostly farmland up here. Ile St.-Jean is one of those thousand (mille) islands, and is the by far the most settled one. There aren't really 1,000, by the way. You may have noticed by now that I write Ile when Québec writes Île... I'm just following the French convention I learned, not to use an accent on a capitalized letter. The second photo is included to show the contrast between the older shield style and the new, wider BGS shield. At least on a BGS, it's much easier to read the wider shield, but I'm not ready to embrace it.


Between those two BGS photos, Terrebonne starts at Sortie 22. This is here for the old overpass, actually Boulevard des Milles-Iles at Sortie 20. If suburbs continue to extend up the A-25 corridor, this bridge is going to be the first to be replaced.


Not even a language barrier prevents RIDOT from erecting a trailblazer shield.

Sortie 8 to A-40
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