Ste-Catherine Street and how it will be
La Presse has an important, detailed piece Monday on the renaissance of Ste-Catherine Street. Several of the images are pure architectural fantasy, mind you.
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MarcG 10:56 on 2019-09-09 Permalink
There isn’t a single car in any of those imaginary scenes.
Faiz Imam 11:43 on 2019-09-09 Permalink
That’s the plan in the summers, but if you look at the ground, you see the thick black lines that show the one lane.
That, plus the bands on the sides of it are wide enough for a truck to pull over and stop, and leave enough space for a 2nd large vehicle to pass.
They’ve worked with the merchants association pretty closely on this, circulation will be pretty reasonable for local traffic, though any through traffic will be strongly encouraged to take sherbrooke or RL.
John B 14:31 on 2019-09-09 Permalink
Nice bike racks! Standard bike racks are hard to actually lock up a bike by more than the edge of one wheel anywhere but at the end of the rack. These will be a lot more useful, and they’re fun too.
Blork 15:32 on 2019-09-09 Permalink
Agree on both points re: the bike racks.
Faiz Imam 16:38 on 2019-09-09 Permalink
Yup, and the wide spacing is great for cargo bikes especially.
Tim F 19:10 on 2019-09-09 Permalink
As lovely as that picture of Philips Square is, i think a gigantic condo block is supposed to block that inviting warm sunshine.
MarcG 09:33 on 2019-09-11 Permalink
So no cars will be allowed in the summer? I just skimmed the article,