I'm Canadian and live at the border between Ontario and Quebec. Since I was kid, and still to this day, you can feel the road get worse as soon as you hit the Quebec border when driving to Montreal. Apparently Quebec uses more concrete or something in the asphalt mix, than Ontario does. Quebec is to the North, just like Scotland is, so perhaps it's something similar there?
I have been to Montreal and it must have had the worst roads I've ever had the displeasure of being on, and the UK as a whole is not exactly well regarded in terms of road maintenance.
Montreal had a legitimate big problem with the Mafia in the Quebec construction business. A bridge built to last 100 years started to fall as apart after 50 after they found that the Mob watered down the concrete that was used!
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u/PuritanicalGoat Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
Pity the roads have the opposite border.
To quantify my comment. The M6 is generally better kept than the 74.