{"id":832,"date":"2008-04-26T16:47:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T21:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/04\/26\/saint-paul-so-much-for-pedestrianization\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:59:50","slug":"saint-paul-so-much-for-pedestrianization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/26\/saint-paul-so-much-for-pedestrianization\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Paul: so much for pedestrianization"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ville-Marie mayor Beno\u00eet Labont\u00e9 has shelved plans to pedestrianize the portion of St. Paul Street between Place Jacques-Cartier and St. Laurent Blvd. this summer. Although he claims that politics has nothing to do with his decision—more discussion with merchants is needed, he says—the folks in City Hall say that Labont\u00e9 is just posturing in anticipation of his mayoral campaign in 2009. You might recall that, although Labont\u00e9 supports the seasonal pedestrianization of Ste. Catherine St. in the Village, it was City Hall’s transport plan that recommended turning St. Paul into a pedestrian street.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the Gazette is reporting<\/a>:<\/p>\n

the Montreal executive committee member responsible for that plan laughed when it was suggested that Labont\u00e9’s announcement was anything other than a political move by someone on the verge of running for the mayoralty of Montreal in 2009.<\/p>\n

“I find it sad (Labont\u00e9’s) political agenda consists of deciding that, when there’s a problem, the solution is to do nothing,”Andr\u00e9 Lavall\u00e9e said.<\/p>\n

Labont\u00e9’s announcement short-circuits local provisions of a sweeping plan by city hall to re-think Montreal’s transportation and road system. <\/p>\n

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Friday’s announcement by Labont\u00e9 comes in the midst of a bid by Mayor G\u00e9rald Tremblay to persuade the province to give the mayor at city hall – rather than the borough – control of Ville Marie, a move Labont\u00e9 has challenged in a letter to Municipal Affairs Minister Nathalie Normandeau.<\/p>\n

Asked if his shelving of the transport projects was to show he is still running things in the borough, Labont\u00e9 said: “This isn’t partisan politics. This is a potentially interesting project, but we want to be sure it succeeds.”<\/p>\n

Lavall\u00e9e said he wondered why Labont\u00e9, prior to his political defection from Tremblay’s Union Montr\u00e9al party, and still a member of the executive committee, didn’t raise concerns when the transportation plan was discussed last year.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

La Presse has more detail<\/a> on the city’s dealings with St. Paul businesses:<\/p>\n

Lors d\u2019une r\u00e9cente consultation publique au March\u00e9 Bonsecours, l\u2019id\u00e9e d\u2019un projet-pilote de pi\u00e9tonnisation de la rue Saint-Paul d\u00e8s cet \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9tait partag\u00e9e par plusieurs participants, notamment Jean-Marc Lavoie, du bar Les Deux Pierrots, et Ginette Major, pr\u00e9sidente de l\u2019Association des r\u00e9sidants du Vieux-Montr\u00e9al. Mais M. Labont\u00e9 n\u2019en veut pas. \u00abM\u00eame un projet-pilote doit \u00eatre fait correctement, dit-il. Ces projets de pi\u00e9tonnisation ne font pas partie de notre culture et doivent \u00eatre bien d\u00e9velopp\u00e9s pour assurer leur succ\u00e8s.\u00bb<\/p>\n

L\u2019initiateur du projet \u00e0 la ville centre, Andr\u00e9 Lavall\u00e9e, responsable du Transport \u00e0 la Ville et maire de Rosemont-La Petite Patrie, n\u2019est pas tr\u00e8s heureux de ce report. \u00ab Je ne comprends pas le recul de M. Labont\u00e9, dit-il \u00e0 La Presse. Depuis un mois et demi, on est d\u00e9j\u00e0 en consultation avec les associations. Les gens nous disent que \u00e7a nous prend toujours 20 ans pour faire avancer des choses, qu\u2019\u00e0 la Ville, il n\u2019y a jamais personne qui ne d\u00e9cide rien. \u00c7a m\u2019appara\u00eet \u00eatre un agenda politique pour M. Labont\u00e9.\u00bb<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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