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Kate 21:37 on 2020-02-19 Permalink Reply  

• Max 02:43 on 2020-02-20 Permalink

  I’m all for this. The city’s overdue on making nice with Phillips Square. Victoria and Dorchester Squares both look fabulous these days. It’s high time we did away with the extraneous asphalt surrounding Phillips, and hooked it up with Place Frère-André in a manner befitting the importance of the area.

  Throw those landscape designers a bonus cheque while you’re at it. The recent renovations of our downtown public spaces have all come out exceedingly well.

• Ian 09:18 on 2020-02-20 Permalink

  @Max It would be pretty nice if they pedestrianized that whole block south of Ste Kitty including the streets immediately east west and south of the park. They may as well, really, since the terrasses have been allowed the sidewalks on the east side are pretty much impassable and the streets south and west don’t get very much traffic compared to other blocks in the area anyhow.

  I don’t understand what you mean about connecting that with place-F-A though, that’s a full block away at Rene Levesque?

• Bill Binns 11:39 on 2020-02-20 Permalink

  I’m still pissed about how badly the city screwed over the woman who bought the flower kiosk business.

• Max 11:45 on 2020-02-20 Permalink

  @Ian: I’m thinking that Place Phillips (the street south of Cathcart) could be narrowed by removing some parking. If both squares and the sidewalks were redone harmoniously (consistent plantings, paving stones, street furniture, etc) then we would effectively have one larger square that extends all the way to Dorchester. It would be great if that weird bit of diagonal parking by the Tim’s and the Crane Building were incorporated too. I think the street’s wide enough to accommodate 3 lanes of traffic (two north and one south) along with some really ped-friendly sidewalks.

• Max 11:53 on 2020-02-20 Permalink

  Also, Ian: I don’t think the street on the east side will ever be pedestrianized. It’s an important link for traffic getting from the Victoria Square area to Sherbrooke. The street on the west side has a problem too. It’s an important southbound connection between Sherbrooke and Rene-Levesque. The drivers would revolt.

• Ian 16:24 on 2020-02-20 Permalink

  To be fair city councillors is also used by a lot of bicyclists, it is the least steep grade from Rene Levesque to Sherbrooke.

  It’s not an important driving link though, University, er, Robert-Bourassa only 3 blocks over serves that purpose just fine. City Councillors is very narrow and doesn’t have that much traffic between Ste Kitty and DeMaisonneuve compared to other nearby streets. As far as Union is concerned TBH I mostly only see delivery trucks between Ste Kitty & RL.