A call for tenders issued by the Society of outdoor establishments of Quebec (SÉPAQ) proposes the cutting of part of a wooded area to make a parking lot near the Aquarium of Quebec.
Currently, visitors to the Aquarium have three parking areas.
Two of them, P2 and P3, are owned by the Commission de la capitale nationale du Québec (CCNQ).
In a few months, visitors to the tourist attraction will no longer have access to these two parking lots due to work near the Quebec Bridge and the Pierre-Laporte Bridge.
SÉPAQ, which manages the Aquarium de Québec, is counting on a nearby wooded area, which could serve as parking spaces for tourists.
We do not know the exact area of the wooded area that will have to be cut, but several trees will have to be sacrificed to go ahead with the parking project.
A citizen involved in sustainable mobility deplores the parking project as well as the way of doing things of the state corporation.
“We know that these huge parking lots promote sedentarism […] it promotes a whole series of diseases […] Air pollution alone costs us $30 billion in Quebec per year,” says Johanne Elsener, president of Santé Urbaine.
Remember that the area near the Aquarium du Québec is heavily used by motorists.
The citizens of the sector denounce the commercial development which intensifies, in particular when woodlots are sacrificed.
