The Turcot Interchange is a three-level stack freeway interchange within the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Located southwest of downtown, the interchange links highways 15 (Décarie Expressway), 20 (Remembrance Highway), and 720 (Ville-Marie Expressway), and provides access to the Champlain Bridge. It takes its name from the currently-abandoned Turcot rail yards over which it was built.
Turcot is the largest and the third busiest interchange of Montreal (after Décarie and Anjou, respectively) as of 2010, with numbers averaging a north-southbound flow of 278 000 approximate daily drivers, and over 350 000 west-eastbound in total. Moreover, Turcot is an occasional spot for road accidents as speed is only limited to 70 km/h on any of the interchange's directions (and the limit is often likely to be disregarded by the night drivers going over 100 km/h). Measures were recently undertaken by Transports Quebec to install speed cameras southward of the interchange, with a speed limit of 70 km/h, which only partially helped resolve the situation.
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