The mayor probably didn’t have time to make this announcement, so I’m taking advantage of this forum: I’m declaring open the season for closed streets in Montreal. Arm ourselves with patience!
Most access to this city is blocked
This weekend, the La Fontaine tunnel, the Ville-Marie tunnel, the Mercier bridge, not to mention all the access roads to certain interchanges and other expressways will get on your nerves. I’ll spare you the nomenclature. There would be no end to it and it varies every day. We still have years to come!
The pedestrian street festival
In addition to zigzagging through the maze of works and orange cones, you will have to readapt to the “pedestrianized” streets. We don’t give up!
Pedestrianize. This is the flagship verb of Projet Montréal: we pedestrianize entire sections of central arteries. Pedestrianizing also includes bicycles, scooters, skateboards that weave between pedestrians.
Obviously, all the studies on “pedestrianization” abound in the same direction. It’s more profitable for the trade and everyone is delighted. So much so that Valérie dreams of pedestrianizing Montreal all year round. Down with tank culture! Montrealers are all 20 years old, ride bikes, eat vegan and get drunk on kombucha.
To hell with the works and the traffic jams: We’re closing everything!
It doesn’t matter if it pollutes more, the important thing is the image. And mobility, supposedly so dear to our mayor? We don’t care about mobility! Note the playful layouts of these streets. Drawings painted on the asphalt, large blocks of cement, chairs and benches made of giant popsicle sticks, sandpits.
It feels like daycare. Will we find the magical “talking trail” on rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest? To my taste, Montreal is getting milky, but not sure that it’s greener for all that.