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This is a theme that continues to reverberate around Projet Montréal’s efforts to reshape the city. The experience in the party’s Plateau-Mont-Royal stronghold has given it a tendency to press ahead with change, critics be damned. Opponents of ideas such as bike lanes, removing parking spots and changing the direction of streets may have been vocal early on in the Plateau, but over time the borough council won over local residents, to be voted back in with greater majorities.
Since Plante ascended to power at city hall in 2017, however, this strategy has not worked so well in every borough, let alone Montreal as a whole. The Mount Royal debacle — the hastily conceived pilot project to close Camillien-Houde Way to through traffic and the ensuing backlash — drove that point home. But it’s not clear if the lesson fully sank in, given the lack of consultation with even the schools on Terrebonne, never mind merchants on Notre-Dame.
There’s no doubt some of the street closures — namely Mont-Royal Ave. in the Plateau and Wellington St. in Verdun — are crowd-pleasers that help increase local traffic. But businesses in those areas serve mainly a local clientele.
The pedestrianization of Crescent and Ontario Sts. may also thrive by creating a convivial atmosphere with the addition of terrasses.
But the Notre-Dame St. monstrosity only promised to generate misery for beleaguered merchants, residents and visitors alike, given it’s not a street that necessarily draws business from the immediate neighbourhood.
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