Mont-Royal Avenue: still a hot potato
QMI also continues to hammer at how some people do not like the pedestrianization of Mont‑Royal.
I was amused by this tweet I spotted:
La montréalisation des médias, ça aussi comme effet que mon oncle à Jonquière a une opinion sur la piétonisation de l'avenue Mont-Royal. Et ça lui tient bizarrement beaucoup à coeur d'en parler.
(PS : Il est contre. Mais genre, beaucoup contre!)
— Louis T (@_LouisT) June 22, 2020
Jack 10:33 on 2020-06-26 Permalink
Louis T is very funny. I’ve seen his show a few times and trust me he is fearless. He pushes back hard on the Quebecor universe and for it has been trashed by their columnists. He is from the Saguenay and has a great shtick about growing up a Tremblay in the Sag.
He is also someone who speaks frankly about living with Aspergers.
Blokes check him out.
DeWolf 11:18 on 2020-06-26 Permalink
La Presse ran a bunch of angry letters about François Cardinal’s recent column, which suggested that now is the time to experiment with new ways of managing our urban space. Half of the letters were from people who don’t even live in Montreal. I don’t get it, why do people in Saint-Constant or Lachute feel so strongly about Mont-Royal being pedestrianized?
walkerp 11:21 on 2020-06-26 Permalink
Thanks for that push, Jack. He is funny. Followed.
Orwell is proven right again and again. I suspect many of these people whose anger about something that does not affect their lives at all would welcome a Two-Minute Hate, commandité par Québécor, where they could froth and rage against pedestrianization and racial equality.
qatzelok 12:50 on 2020-06-26 Permalink
DeWolf: “why do people in Saint-Constant or Lachute feel so strongly about Mont-Royal being pedestrianized?”
I think it’s the symbolic value of this change, this central-Montréal de-automobilization.
Bungalow-dwellers see “pedestrianisation” on their screens and then they tremble imagining themselves walking 15 minutes back and forth to Couchetard every day past lawns and lawns and lawns.
Then they type – the same five or six posters after every car story in commercial media.
Robert H 16:13 on 2020-06-26 Permalink
Ha ha, je suis certain que c’est la fin du monde. Mais moi, je vote aussi pour la valeur symbolique de cette matière de très grande importance pour tous les Québécois. Parce qu’il il ne s’agit pas seulement de la piétonisation de L’Avenue Mont Royal. Cette controverse est devenue la dernière indicateur de la guerre de culture entre Montréal et Le Reste Du Québec. C’est le signe d’une ambivalence envers la métropole ressentie par tant de personnes dans le ROQ. Les Rues piétonisées, vêtements religieux, minorités raciales, ethniques et sexuelles, 24/7 embouteillages et cones oranges, zone à ceux qui se croient chic et branchés, bondée et trop chère, le crime, anglophones (!), et jamais assez de place pour se stationner. Une tache au visage pur du patrie. C’est pourquoi on dit à Jonquière, Shawinigan, Sainte Agathe, Rimouski, Québec, Laval et Brossard «Montréal est un trou!» J’aime Montréal.