 In response to the incident, the Quebec government instigated several strategies to speed the recovery effort and to minimise the inconvenience of commuters.The Quebec government made it a priority to rescue survivors, remove the dead and the debris from Autoroute 19.The demolition work (of the Concorde Boulevard) closed Autoroute 19 for a little under four weeks and caused "motorists [to] get up earlier and use special buses to commute into the city".