I’m glad to see Montreal moving forward, despite all the people complaining about everything Plante does. Most of her measures have had a positive impact on the city.
With the introduction and expansion of the REM, the expansion of bike lanes, the pedestrian streets in the summer, etc., I think we’re making good progress towards reducing the need for a car.
There’s others problems than cars in Montréal, it’s really dirty, and more and more unsafe, this looks like the New York from the 80s
I totally disagree. Having lived here all my life, Montreal’s never been cleaner. And I’ve never felt safer in this city.
I remember going downtown in the early 2000’s with motorcycle gang strip clubs lining Ste-Catherine near St-Laurent and really shady punks and drug addicts hanging out in some empty lots with trash all around and prostitutes everywhere. Some areas were really dirty with trash all over the place and it smelled like garbage in the summer. Hochelaga, where I currently live, was a white trash ghetto with people on welfare and motorcycle gangs owning most of the bars and terrorizing people.
Nowadays, the red light district has completely changed. Downtown is relatively much cleaner and safer. Hochelaga has become an enjoyable neighborhood with families and honestly really cool shops and restaurants and nice parks.
The only issue that’s happening right now is the increase in homelessness. It’s never been so bad since the CAQ were elected. There has been evictions left and right and tent neighborhoods are popping up everywhere. There’s never been so many homeless people and beggars in Montreal before. The city has asked for help from the provincial government many times, but they keep being ignored.
I can’t wait for the next provincial elections for the CAQ to be kicked to the curb. It can’t happen soon enough.
OUI!
FUCK YES!
ENFIN!
@cyborganism Toronto has eliminated in 2021. Not sure what CultMtl is smoking.
LoL!!! Ben oui t’as raison!
Keep up the momentum, we need people to see the future with multimodal transportation.
Another idiotic way that these bicycle obsessed idiots are ruining cities and driving most of the paying traffic out of downtowns. Expecting people to exclusively ride bicycles in places where the weather is not conducive during most of the year is asinine.
Lol “paying traffic”
It’s well documented that pedestrians and cyclists coming into the neighborhood spend more money than some dude driving in from the waste island
Expecting people to exclusively ride bicycles
Where do you see this?
In the lack of comprehensive public transportation options for everyone not in the immediate city limits.
Dont get me wrong, Im for the change because I recognize that a change like this is going to suck for the little while it takes things to shift more widely. But I’m also aware that the topic doesn’t have a “one-solution-for-all” answer.
I don’t think Montréal sucks that much public transit wise. And if you live south shore, it can be accessed by transit very well. In contrast I find people that drive downtown or wherever to work from south shore unnecessarily rather stupid.
That said, Montreal does lack good surface level transit on separated tracks. What Montreal has in the form of “missing middle” lacking in other North American cities, it’s lacking the street car tracks to move all those in the middle around.
The King, Queen and Spadina streetcars are excellent people movers, and it’s a joy to hop on and off of them to hit up multiple places enroute. The same can be said of the 2, 4/6 and 47/49 tram lines in Budapest. Or the metro line 1, which is basically subsurface like the London underground. Or all 12 tram lines in Brno. Or all the lines that hit the Jelačić square in Zagreb.
Imagine if Parc, Mont-Royal (even during the summer) and main still had street cars running, how much easier it would be to get around without the hassle of being stuck in traffic or having to go up and down for five minutes each into metro stations.
Montreal needs to significantly beef up its bus service. It’s a lot cheaper and more flexible than REMs or subways
If it’s electric articulated buses with separated lanes like on Pie IX, I’m all for it.
