Traffic Ticket Lawyer in Montreal

In briefIn Montreal, Highway Safety Code tickets are handled by the Montreal Municipal Court. You have 30 days to file a not-guilty plea, online, by mail or in person. Zorro Ticket assists drivers across the greater Montreal area.

Me Julien Lespérance Hudon

Your Quebec traffic ticket lawyer

Competent municipal court

Monitored major roads

• Highway 40 (Metropolitan)
• Highway 15 / Décarie Blvd
• Highway 20
• Highway 25
• Ville-Marie Expressway (720)
• Notre-Dame St, Sainte-Catherine St

Local context

The metropolis with the highest ticket volume in Quebec: a dense highway network, many school zones, reserved lanes and photo radars. For exact radar locations, the official source is the Government of Quebec map (quebec.ca).

Being stopped on Montreal's road network

The Montreal agglomeration carries the densest traffic in Quebec. Tickets are common on the Metropolitan Expressway (40), the Ville-Marie Expressway and tunnel (720), the Turcot interchange and the Décarie corridor (15). These routes combine shifting speed limits, construction zones and heavy enforcement, which drives up the number of alleged speeding offences.

City driving adds offences specific to Montreal: driving in lanes reserved for buses and taxis, ignoring downtown and residential school zones, prohibited turns and red lights captured by camera. Each carries demerit points on top of the fine.

Filing your plea at the Montreal Municipal Court

In Montreal, a not-guilty plea can be filed online at services.montreal.ca/plaidoyer, by mail or in person at 775 Gosford Street. You have 30 days from the date the ticket is served; miss that deadline, or pay the fine, and guilt is admitted and the points are recorded on your SAAQ record.

Once the plea is received, the court sets a hearing date and mails you a notice. As this is the highest-volume court in the province, hearing delays can be long — a delay that, handled well, sometimes creates room to negotiate or challenge the evidence.

Photo radar and red-light cameras

Montreal is among the most heavily monitored areas in Quebec for automated devices. An important point: an offence detected by photo radar or a red-light camera is attributed to the vehicle's owner, not to an identified driver. This type of ticket carries a fine but adds no demerit points to the driving record.

That does not mean you should pay without thinking: the photographic evidence, device calibration and signage can all be examined. Conversely, a ticket handed to you in person by an officer for speeding or a red light does carry points — so it pays to know exactly which kind of ticket you received.

Frequently asked questions

Information verified Juin 2026. Sources: SAAQ, LégisQuébec (Highway Safety Code). For information only — no guarantee of outcome. SAAQ — demerit pointsHighway Safety Code