{"id":1109,"date":"2006-08-30T21:52:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T01:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2006-08-30T21:52:21","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T01:52:21","slug":"new-pedestrian-space-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/08\/30\/new-pedestrian-space-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pedestrian Space, Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New pedestrian space, Montreal\" title=\"New pedestrian space, Montreal\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/montreal\/bernard.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This attractive little space is the result of the pedestrian-oriented rebuilding of Bernard Street, a minor mixed commercial\/residential street in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s wonderful to note the many details that have gone into making this small space. The bulb-out sidewalks at each corner increase pedestrian space, slow traffic, and mean that pedestrians have only a short distance to walk to cross the street. There&#8217;s a little bench for sitting any way you want (it was almost\u00a0 constantly occupied when I was there, waiting for a place at a restaurant). The tree has a well-designed, attractive tree-pit cover that will let in rainwater while protecting the roots, and will eventually expand when the roots grow up. The pedestrian sign is large and obvious in its meaning, not only telling cars to be careful, but also inviting pedestrians to treat the space as their own. The garbage can, tree, bench and post are all lined up, leaving a wide clear space on the sidewalk for pedestrians to walk unobstructed.<\/p>\n<p>It looks so simple, yet somehow it is difficult for Toronto to manage ANY of these things. In the first place, Toronto does not even routinely consider this kind of transformation when it rebuilds a street (the underfunded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/planning\/urbdesign\/civicimprove.htm\">Civic Improvement Program<\/a> can only affect a small number of projects a year). It has taken a long struggle to get the city to consider putting all sidewalk obstacles in one line to leave a broad clear space for walkers. It took a struggle to get the city to agree to just consider putting bulb-outs on residential streets. The covers put on tree pits are ugly and hamper trees. And the city almost never puts benches on streets.<\/p>\n<p>There are some inklings that <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=1047\">positive change is in the air<\/a>, however, and this example from Montreal provides a good model for where we want to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This attractive little space is the result of the pedestrian-oriented rebuilding of Bernard Street, a minor mixed commercial\/residential street in Montreal. It&#8217;s wonderful to note the many details that have gone into making this small space. 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