{"id":4408,"date":"2009-10-18T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T03:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:38:22","slug":"st-henri-residents-take-their-candidates-for-a-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/10\/18\/st-henri-residents-take-their-candidates-for-a-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"St-Henri residents take their candidates for a walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wished that your local politicians could walk a mile in your shoes?<\/p>\n

That’s what group of St-Henri citizens achieved today when they brought together local candidates from Union, Vision and Projet Montr\u00e9al, as well as two independents running in their riding, and then took them for a stroll down main street.<\/p>\n

Manuel Johnson, one of the event organizers and author of the Saint-Henri Chronicles <\/a>blog, describes the walk and talk with local candidates:<\/p>\n

“We split into three groups, each piloted by a local “guide”, and brought the candidates for a walk along rush-hour St-Antoine, so they could experience our unpleasant every-day reality, and so we could point out the narrow sidewalks, the three lanes of one-way traffic, the excessive speed, the traffic-light poles planted smack-dab in the middle of the sidewalk blocking stroller passage, the school-crossing signs blocked by tree branches and facing away from the drivers.\u00a0 Here, the politicians followed the residents<\/em> as we walked toward the Centre communautaire des femmes actives.\u00a0 Not the other way around.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the community centre, the resients – many of whom were parents of young children – served coffee and proposed some inexpensive ways to make St-Antoine street safer, such allowing parrallel parking on both sides of the street to create a physical barrier between pedestrians and vehicles.<\/p>\n

In the end, all the candidates who attended signed an engagement prepared by the citizen group. Projet Montr\u00e9al also released a communiqu\u00e9<\/a> supporting the measures and the citizen-led initiative.<\/p>\n

But more importantly, no matter who wins on November 1st, these St-Henri residents can hold the person in office accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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