The new version of the connection of the two sections of boulevard Cavendish, which Montreal has just presented in Quebec, meets “all the needs”, according to Mayor Valérie Plante. She estimates that the place given to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport will place this 200 million project “in the 21and century”.
Posted at 11:42
“When you build new streets, you have to think differently. And there, we have the possibility of doing it, ”hammered the elected official on Monday, when her administration has just submitted to the government a project notice to connect the two sections of Boulevard Cavendish, a project eagerly awaited in the west. of the island for half a century and feared for just as long in Côte-Saint-Luc.
So far, Montreal has opted for the construction of a wide urban boulevard, with a strong presence of vegetation, sidewalks and bike paths on each side of the boulevard, traffic lanes for public transport and only two lanes of automobile traffic. “The version we present meets all the needs. We have just added a motorway link to the 21stand century,” said Mr.me Plant.
She says she is aiming for a site “for everyone: pedestrians, cyclists, pedestrians and motorists”. “That’s how any type of road should be built these days. That’s how it should be done,” she said in English, insisting that “every time a city decides to make more lanes,” it ultimately generates more traffic.
According to the opinion of the City, of which The Press reported on Monday, the connection of the north and south sections of the boulevard will be done by passing under CN and CP railway tracks, which have always been the main obstacle to the completion of this artery, between Saint-Laurent and Côte-Saint-Luc .
“We want that link. It is important for tightening quarters. But at the same time, there is a complexity, it’s true, with the railway and the tracks that are there. There is also the complexity of having on one side a more industrial sector and on the other, a purely residential sector,” acknowledged Mr.me Plant. For the future, however, she says she is “confident” of obtaining the support of the Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE), among other things “because of the mobility options” it offers. “Our administration is the first to put in a real effort, and the money,” she slipped.
The city’s project also provides for a road connection to Royalmount Avenue, which will open up the municipality’s industrial sector. This sector will need it twice with the upcoming construction of the Royalmount real estate megaproject, at the intersection of highways 15 and 40. The other major element is the construction of a new street following the current private right-of-way of Pacific Avenue, that borders the railway tracks. This new street will connect boulevard Cavendish to rue Paré as well as to the site of the old racecourse of Montreal, which is promised to a vast residential project.
With Bruno Bisson