{"id":6257,"date":"2010-03-16T18:22:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T23:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=6257"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:48:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:48:22","slug":"new-plan-for-the-turcot-does-it-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/03\/16\/new-plan-for-the-turcot-does-it-add-up\/","title":{"rendered":"A small victory for the Southwest: Turcot plans modified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6258\" title=\"St. Remi_St_Jacques_Mar2010 revision\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/03\/St.-Remi_St_Jacques_Mar2010-revision-1024x637.jpg\" alt=\"St. Remi_St_Jacques_Mar2010 revision\" width=\"491\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Modified based on an MTQ image &#8211; additions not to scale<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This past weekend, the MTQ quietly broke the news to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-canada.ca\/regions\/Montreal\/2010\/03\/12\/004-turcot-echangeur.shtml\">Radio-Canada<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/montreal\/story\/2010\/03\/12\/mtl-quebec-turcot-changes.html\">CBC News<\/a> that the plan for the Turcot Interchange would be modified in response to some of the complaints made during the province\u2019s environmental hearings (BAPE) last spring.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of this announcement are the residents of rue Cazelais in the part of St. Henri known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewebs.com\/villagedestanneries\/index.htm\">\u2018les Tanneries\u2019<\/a>, where 60 dwellings will be saved from the wrecking ball. (The remaining 100 units in the area won\u2019t be as lucky.) The other area where revisions will be made is south of the Lachine Canal, where the A-15 skirts C\u00f4te St. Paul: rather than being rebuilt on an embankment (which critics charged would divide neighbourhoods), this section of the highway will be rebuilt on pillars, allowing movement underneath.<\/p>\n<p>This is good news for residents of these areas, whose cause was taken up by the BAPE in its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bape.gouv.qc.ca\/sections\/rapports\/publications\/bape262.pdf\">final report<\/a>. However, the call to reduce total highway volume on the Turcot from the City and countless community groups went unheeded: the MTQ stands by its projections that daily flows will increase from 280,000 to 304,000 vehicles and there\u2019s not a thing they can do about it. And their promise to integrate transit into the project with a reserved bus lane on the A-20\/720 remains vague. (This is likely due to the incompatibility of reserved transit lanes with interchange ramps, where the very nature of an interchange requires that vehicles mix.)<\/p>\n<p>It would be easy to rant against the MTQ for the general lack of vision exhibited in this cynical move to appease the more annoying voices in the southwest, but others will no doubt play that familiar tune. Rather, I would simply encourage folks at the MTQ to revise their drawings again, omitting inconsequential on-ramps like N, which serve no significant function in terms of regional transportation, yet threaten buildings like 780 St. Remi, a vibrant live-work space that houses many creative (and productive) artists for which Montreal is well-known.<\/p>\n<p>The saga continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modified based on an MTQ image &#8211; additions not to scale This past weekend, the MTQ quietly broke the news to Radio-Canada and CBC News that the plan for the Turcot Interchange would be modified in response to some of the complaints made during the province\u2019s environmental hearings (BAPE) last spring. The winners of this<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/03\/16\/new-plan-for-the-turcot-does-it-add-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;A small victory for the Southwest: Turcot plans modified&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[283,295,28,120],"class_list":["post-6257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-canada","tag-cbc","tag-spacing-montreal","tag-turcot-interchange"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A small victory for the Southwest: Turcot plans modified - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/03\/16\/new-plan-for-the-turcot-does-it-add-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A small victory for the Southwest: Turcot plans modified - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Modified based on an MTQ image &#8211; additions not to scale This past weekend, the MTQ quietly broke the news to Radio-Canada and CBC News that the plan for the Turcot Interchange would be modified in response to some of the complaints made during the province\u2019s environmental hearings (BAPE) last spring. 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