Winter Driving on the 148

What the surface of Route 148 is like between Shawville and the city, from the ministry's own winter road-condition reports.

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Stretch

Surface

Visibility

In effect since

Bryson to Pontiac — past Shawville

bare and dry

Good

Oct 16, 3:31 a.m.

Pontiac to Gatineau (Aylmer sector)

bare and dry

Good

Oct 16, 3:31 a.m.

Aylmer sector to Hull sector

bare and dry

Good

Oct 16, 3:31 a.m.

Fort-Coulonge to Bryson — up the valley

bare and dry

Good

Oct 16, 3:31 a.m.

About the winter season

The ministry updates winter road conditions once a day between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. from 15 October to 15 April, and again whenever conditions change. Outside those dates it sends almost nothing, so the last reading of the spring simply stays on the feed. This page will not show you that reading as if it were today's.

Worth knowing

Only the ministry's own routes are reported

Route 303 north to Ladysmith is not in the winter-conditions network, and neither is any concession road or village street. A bare, dry reading on this page says nothing about the road to your own gate.

A stretch is long, and one reading covers all of it

Bryson to Pontiac is about thirty kilometres of the valley in one row, and Pontiac to Aylmer is over forty. The ministry reports a single surface for the whole of each, so a slick corner in the hills at Bristol can sit inside a stretch that reads bare and wet.

Bare and wet is the reading to watch below zero

The dangerous morning is not the one that reads snow-covered — it is the one that reads bare and wet after a thaw, with the temperature dropping through freezing on the run in to Aylmer.

Winter Driving on the 148

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The official channels

About the winter season

Worth knowing

Only the ministry's own routes are reported

A stretch is long, and one reading covers all of it

Bare and wet is the reading to watch below zero