All photos taken eastbound until the very end.


Instead of trudging through downtown Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, QC 132 takes advantage of the A-30 expressway around town. In the not-too-distant future, part of this section of A-30 will be twinned as A-530, connecting to a realigned A-30 that will instead cross the river to end at A-20. I assume the remainder will just be plain QC 132 (and partly QC 201 as well), since this road really is not freeway-standard.


The former alignment of QC 132 turns at the waterfront from Chemin Larocque to Rue Victoria. Not too far from here is a bridge out of Valleyfield (I'd call it Salaberry but signs seem to accentuate the last word) that leads to QC 201 and thence to A-20.


Getting up-close and personal with Hydro-Québec, who sees such danger in the tunnel through itself that it posts the warning bilingually.


Leaving Ile de Salaberry. Québec is full of old bridges that are much more structurally complex than they needed to be for the bodies of water they had to span. But hey, the bridges are still functional.


Right on up to the Châteauguay bypass where Autoroute 30 starts again. A-30 will realise the Québec of tomorrow, for only C$6 million - that's about US$25 million by the time you read this, and rising quickly. The last two photos are at QC 138, where QC 132 hops a ride back to the waterfront and its old alignment (still very easy to follow - Old Châteauguay Road and Old Malone Highway) and A-30 rises out of the dust. QC 138 will in the future be an interchange from A-30, which is why the road suddenly widens here (enough room for a diamond); QC 132 will be the next exit west, and A-30 will parallel 132 back toward Salaberry-de-Valleyfield.


Plenty of right-of-way reserved on either side of QC 132 through Ste.-Catherine and St.-Constant. Must be for Autoroute 30, right? Right, and yet wrong, because A-30 was killed through here and rerouted around the south side of town, to open as soon as Québec is done constructing it. So now there's plenty of ROW for a freeway with frontage roads, as was the original plan, but the land will sit empty for who knows how many years until somehow it's absorbed back into the town.


An old left turn lane sign not above the lane, and then QC 132 has been tricked out at Rue Principale to leave enough room for a future diamond interchange. I don't get what's happening here, because first of all it's much too close to Chemin St.-François-Xavier, and second of all, this won't be A-30 anymore. Maybe it was moved just before the A-30 controversy was finally settled, in which case this S-curve will be a permanent and expensive bug.


QC 132 not only gets an exit number at this new interchange (aerial photos still show an intersection), but the exit includes 132 itself! That's Autoroute 30's exit number, as 30 now begins again at A-15. In the future, with that southern bypass I mentioned before, there will be a short length of freeway (currently A-30) connecting QC 132 to A-30 to the east, that looks to be unnumbered. I recommend 430.


Two photos from the forced A-20/QC 132 duplex; Autoroute 20 was meant to follow A-720 on the other side of the river and leave 132 alone (or as Autoroute 430), but 720 was never completed to Autoroute 25. These are westbound, meaning this page is almost over. The first is the Montréal skyline, centered on Stade Olympique, and the second is the strange case of A-20 not just using an exit number to exit itself, but actually borrowing that number from Autoroute 15!


Crossing the Yamaska River from Yamaska.


Continuing to the Rivière Saint-François crossing into Pierreville. To the left is the remnant of the old QC 132 bridge - it was left in service while the new one was built, and then mostly dismantled. The center piers are quite close together as if forming part of a dam, but I'd have to go back and walk on the riverside to formulate any more theories.


This is the very end of the page, and the EB photos stop. Here are faraway westbound photos of Autoroute 55 gracefully crossing the St. Lawrence River from Trois-Rivières to Becancour.

Autoroute 15 and the QC 132/A-15 duplex

Onto Autoroute 30 alone
Onto QC 138
Onto Autoroute 20 alone
Follow A-15 to I-87
Up onto Autoroute 55
Back to Québec Roads
Back to Roads