Weekend road closures: Construction, a street fair plus Tour de l'le and Tour la Nuit

To get around Montreal this weekend, public transit, bicycles or a superhuman ability to navigate a compromised road network will be essential, with roads closuresaround the city due to construction, bike tours and a street fair. Here's the rundown:

Tour la Nuit

The Tour la Nuiton Fridayis a 21-kilometre cycling route that starts on Parc Avenue at 8:15 p.m. ET, heads east toParc Maisonneuveand ends back at Jeanne-Mance Park.

The road closures start as of 6:30 p.m. Roads will reopen as the tour progresses along the route, with the last closures ending at midnight.

Here's a list of the closures. And here's the route map (get a PDF here):

Tour de l'le

Tour del'leoccursSunday morning and the length of the route varies, but all events start on ParcAvenue and end at Jeanne-MancePark.

The shorter routes head through Outremont, Cte-Des-NeigesNotre-Dame-De-Grce,Montreal West, Lachine, Lasalle and Verdun. The longer routes go around the WestIsland. You can find a list of closed streets here.

Camillien Houde Way will be closed to drivers over the mountain on Sunday morning between 7:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. for one of eight Cyclovia events this season, which is affiliated with the Tour de l'le.

Here's the Tour del'le route map (there's a PDFhere):

Mont-Royal street fair

Merchants on Mont-Royal Avenueare having their annual street fair this weekend. The avenue isclosed to drivers from St. Laurent Boulevardto IbervilleStreet on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

TurcotInterchange closures

Note the following closures from midnight Friday until 5 a.m. Monday:

• The rampsfromDecarie southbound to Highway 15 south (to the Champlain Bridge).andto Highway 20 west.
• The ramp from Highway 15 north (from Champlain Bridge) to Highway 20 west.
• The ramp from Highway720 (Ville-Marie Expressway)west and Highway 20 eastboundto Decarie north.
• One of two lanes will be closed on Highway 15 north to Decarie north.
• Two of three lanes will be closed on Decarie north between the Turcot Interchange and the NDG Tunnel.
• Saint-Jacques Street will be completely closed between Glen Road/De Courcelle Street and Decarie, starting Friday at 10 p.m., but the eastbound lanes will reopen at 8 a.m. on Sunday because of the Tour de l'le.

Bridges, tunnels, expressways

In Brossard, Marie-Victorin Boulevard westwill be closed at the Champlain Bridgebetween SimardBoulevard and the Highway 10 east ramp. Also, one ofthreelanes will be closed on Highway 132 west at the Champlain Bridge.

These closures run from Friday at10 p.m. to Monday at 5 a.m.

The Bonaventure Expressway heading into Montreal will beclosed from Saturday at 7 a.m. to Sunday at 7 a.m. between Pierre-Dupuy Avenue, the Casino de Montral and Wellington Street. Twoout of threelanes will also be closed in the eastbound (Champlain Bridge) direction at Wellington and the Peel Basin.

The northbound lanes of the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine tunnel will be closed just after midnight Friday nightuntil 6 a.m. Saturday.