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East end residents will finally get their say on the Notre Dame highway project today, when about fifty groups and individuals submit statements<\/a> as part of the scheme’s public hearings process. <\/p>\n

One of the concerned groups is Radio-Canada, which fears that the new highway would scuttle its plans<\/a> to redevelop the vast parking lots<\/a> of the CBC headquarters with new housing. “We expected an urban boulevard. This is the Decarie expressway,” fumed Vianney B\u00e9langer, the project’s would-be developer. He questions the wisdom of converting Notre Dame into an eight-lane downtown highway. “There’s no one in the world that’s doing that anymore. It’s bringing back the urbanism of the last century!”<\/p>\n

Montreal’s health and social services agency is also expressing alarm about the highway’s effect on the health and safety of east end residents. In order to limit the negative impact of increased traffic and pollution, it recommends widening Notre Dame to no more than six lanes. The agency is also worried that the bike paths and pedestrian overpasses included in the highway plan would become forlorn, isolated and havens for street criminals<\/a>, who could prey on the cyclists and pedestrians who use them.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most pertinent analysis of the Notre Dame plan so far comes from the Gazette’s Henry Aubin, who wonders why City Hall has been so silent<\/a> in the dossier. The only thing G\u00e9rald Tremblay has said in the matter is that, by reducing congestion, the Notre Dame plan would improve the quality of life in east end Montreal. This despite the fact that the provincial department of transport estimates that the Notre Dame highway would increase traffic by thirty-five percent<\/i> — that’s an additional 23,000 cars rumbling through the east end every day. <\/p>\n

“Notwithstanding the bus lanes, this project flatly contradicts the spirit of Tremblay’s transport master plan of last June,” writes Aubin. “That plan said cars would no longer rule — public transit would. The Notre Dame project would make it easier for off-islanders to enter the city without using public transit.” Ultimately, he adds, “Notre Dame Street would become a misnomer. An eight-lane artery is not a street. Let’s call a spade a spade. This is really a plan for extending the Ville Marie expressway.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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