{"id":704,"date":"2008-03-12T11:07:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T16:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=704"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:59:51","slug":"city-hall-wants-to-pedestrianize-st-paul-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/03\/12\/city-hall-wants-to-pedestrianize-st-paul-street\/","title":{"rendered":"City Hall wants to pedestrianize St. Paul Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Despite the political storm brewing over the seasonal pedestrianization of Ste. Catherine Street in the Village, city officials has their eyes set on pedestrianizing even more streets. La Presse reports that City Hall is set to announce the partial pedestrianization<\/a> of St. Paul Street between the Bonsecours Market and St. Laurent Boulevard:<\/p>\n

Selon les informations obtenues, on compte s’inspirer de la pi\u00e9tonnisation estivale du march\u00e9 Jean-Talon, dans Rosemont-Petite-Patrie, qui s’effectue du vendredi au dimanche, avec une plage horaire en matin\u00e9e pour les camions de livraison. La possibilit\u00e9 d’accorder des vignettes de passage \u00e0 certains r\u00e9sidants est aussi \u00e9tudi\u00e9e.<\/p>\n

Sans vouloir entrer dans les d\u00e9tails, Andr\u00e9 Lavall\u00e9e, responsable du projet pi\u00e9tonnier, a confirm\u00e9 qu’il va pr\u00e9senter incessamment des \u00aborientations tr\u00e8s claires, qui vont am\u00e9liorer de fa\u00e7on significative la qualit\u00e9 de vie des r\u00e9sidants, commer\u00e7ants et visiteurs du Vieux-Montr\u00e9al, a-t-il dit. Une fois que le projet ambitieux sera approuv\u00e9 par le comit\u00e9 ex\u00e9cutif, nous allons demander l’avis de l’arrondissement de Ville-Marie, de la Table de concertation et de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de d\u00e9veloppement du Vieux-Montr\u00e9al, et on fera des ajustements s’il y a lieu\u00bb.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ville-Marie mayor Beno\u00eet Labont\u00e9 seems supportive of the project but urges the city to proceed slowly; the director of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de d\u00e9veloppement du Vieux-Montr\u00e9al wants the city to embark on feasibility studies to make sure that pedestrianization will not adversely affect business on St. Paul and any of its adjacent streets. <\/p>\n

It seems clear to me that if any street in Montreal is ripe for pedestrianization, it’s St. Paul. In the summer months, when it is invaded by masses of tourists, pedestrians spill off the narrow sidewalks and into the street. I have a hard time imagining how summertime pedestrianization would adversely affect business along the strip around Place Jacques Cartier; if anything, it would improve it by making it far more pleasant. <\/p>\n

St. Paul isn’t the only street being considered for pedestrianization. While that project is being pushed by City Hall, there is interest at the borough level for pedestrianizing streets in Outremont, the Plateau, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and Sud-Ouest. More details from La Presse<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Avec la rue Prince-Arthur, entre le boulevard Saint-Laurent et le carr\u00e9 Saint-Louis, le Plateau-Mont-Royal a d\u00e9j\u00e0 la seule rue pi\u00e9tonni\u00e8re permanente de Montr\u00e9al<\/i>(sic — why does everyone always forget about La Gaucheti\u00e8re in Chinatown?). Mais plusieurs portions de rue sont dans son collimateur afin de les rendre pi\u00e9tonni\u00e8res dans les ann\u00e9es \u00e0 venir, apr\u00e8s avoir consult\u00e9 les citoyens et les commer\u00e7ants, dit la mairesse Helen Fotopulos.<\/p>\n

Ainsi, la rue Guilbault Est, entre le boulevard Saint-Laurent et la rue Saint-Dominique, la rue Gilford, entre la rue Saint-Denis et la station de m\u00e9tro Laurier, la rue Gauthier, entre l’avenue Papineau et la rue Parthenais et la rue Duluth, entre le parc Jeanne-Mance et le parc La Fontaine, pourraient \u00eatre adapt\u00e9es \u00e0 la pi\u00e9tonnisation.<\/p>\n

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Dans Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, des zones pi\u00e9tonnes sont pr\u00e9vues dans le cadre de la transformation de la rue Notre-Dame. La mairesse Lyn Th\u00e9riault ajoute que le d\u00e9veloppement du site Contrecoeur aura des zones pi\u00e9tonnes, mais sera-ce une rue? On ne le sait pas encore. Enfin, dans le Sud-Ouest, le projet Griffintown pr\u00e9voit des zones pi\u00e9tonnes. La rue Olier devrait devenir pi\u00e9tonne, de m\u00eame qu’un bout de la rue de la Montagne, pr\u00e8s du bassin Peel.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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