by Jen Mallia
Last updated: 4:00 PM ET, Thu June 19, 2025
If your clients’ travel plans include flying out of Montreal (YUL) anytime in the next few years, you’ll need to remind them to leave some extra time. The roadways and parking area will be undergoing extensive renovations, which means it will take a little longer to get to the airport. The overhaul is necessitated by the traffic congestion presently plaguing the area around ADM. CTV reports that in recent years travellers have resorted to getting out of vehicles and walking along the road rather than waiting in traffic.
“The airport site was not designed to accommodate so many cars. Drop-off areas are overused, parking spaces are insufficient, congestion is frequent and it even backs up onto the highway,” says Jérôme Conraud, an airport planning manager at ADM.
“Last year, we had 22.5 million passengers, and traffic continues to grow,” he said during a meeting with the media this week.
Planned revitalizations include reconfiguring road accesses, building new drop-off areas, demolishing the current large multi-storey car park and constructing a new one, adding parking spaces, adding a satellite pier and expanding the baggage hall, plus building a rainwater retention basin south of the airport.
Measures to help mitigate the troubles will start soon. “This summer, we will begin closing certain access ramps. At the end of the year, we will demolish and close the multi-storey car park and put in place a number of mitigation measures to help users get through this period,” said Conraud.
Pick-up and drop-off areas serviced by shuttles will be put in place and free short-term parking for stops less than 40 minutes as well as a “virtual parking lot” for taxis and ride shares are expected to help lessen the congestion during the construction phase.
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