Tim Horton's drive-thru blocking cars froma accessing St-Charles Boulevard in PIerrefonds. (CBC) Starting on Monday, Pierrefonds-Roxboro will re-route traffic near a local Tim Horton's to prevent traffic tie-ups.

Borough mayor, Monique Worth, says the drive-thru at the corner of Antoine Faucon street and St-Charles Boulevard is so popular that people are having trouble getting to work during the morning rush hour.

Worth says the line of cars is spilling on to Antoine Faucon eastbound, blocking cars from accessing St-Charles Boulevard, a six-lane artery which connects to the Trans-Canada Highway.

"It's very popular, unfortunately it's on the corner of the street," says Worth.

"Next week it's going to get even worse. We had two private schools that had [pedagogical] weeks this week."

Worth rejects the notion over-development of her borough has contributed to the problem.

Instead, she places part of the blame on the neighbouring city of Kirkland for having too many cul-de-sacs which end right before the highway, and the province for not providing better access to the Trans-Canada.

"We've been talking to the provincial government to get another way to get to the 40 and these discussions have been going on for years."

Salvatore D'Urso, who lives one block from the intersection, said he doesn't understand why drivers don't just get out of their cars and go inside the Tim Horton's for their cup of coffee.

"They could go into the parking lot which is usually empty in the morning," says D'Urso.

"But since nobody is telling them 'you are not allowed to block the street' they're doing it. The other day I saw a police car in the lineup to get a coffee at the drive-thru window."

D'Urso applauds the borough's decision to re-route traffic because, he says, drivers have started using his quiet residential street to avoid the traffic jam.

He said according to one city estimate between 6,000 and 8,000 vehicles a day travel down Henri Daoust Street.

Borough councillors in Pierrefonds adopted the new road rules at a council meeting last Monday night.

Worth acknowledges the new regulations will inconvenience Tim Horton's and its customers but insists the changes are necessary.

"It's just that people are very intolerant now. They have to have their coffee...they have to not have any traffic," she says.