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Police to allow access to Royal Vic during Alouettes games

Pine and Parc Aves. will be open for emergency vehicles and citizens in distress during the last five minutes of the game. The CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

MONTREAL — Anyone who has tried to get to the Royal Victoria hospital when an Alouettes game is on, knows how difficult that can be, and construction in the area certainly hasn’t helped matters.

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But Montreal police have now confirmed there is a plan in place to allow people to access the hospital during Sunday afternoon’s football game.

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Pine and Parc Avenus will be open for emergency vehicles and citizens in distress during the last five minutes of the game.

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While the game is going on, those who need access and emergency vehicles can use Peel street.

Police received multiple complaints that people with urgent health conditions were not permitted to be driven through the streets that accessed the hospital because it was cordoned off.

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