Place des Montréalaises is running late
The promised Place des Montréalaises near Champ-de-Mars metro is running two years late. Some details on the project (but not the delay) on the city website.
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david263 02:15 on 2020-12-03 Permalink
I’m a very very staunch proponent of covering up the giant 720 trench between Saint Laurent and the new super hospital, and the provincial transportation bureaucracy’s nixing of the initial plan made me into (to this day) an anti-Transports Québec activist. But this park was pure Denis Coderre money-wasting. The description in that article and reads almost like a send up of a modern idea for a park. Stumps II (or XI), as it were.
Will never be built in its designed form.
Kate 12:25 on 2020-12-03 Permalink
I have to admit the description of the plans doesn’t do much for me. Names on a sign. It’s like yeah, we ignored the contribution of women for 375 years, here, we’re going to make one monument for all of them, and it’s going to suck.
At least it won’t be as bad as the monument to Mary Wollstonecraft that was installed in a London park recently, and received pans from all sides. It looks like a pile of old solder.
DeWolf 13:47 on 2020-12-03 Permalink
The good news is that a block away, work on the Viger Square rebuilt is finally finishing up after… what, 13 years? Better late than never I guess.
Blork 16:14 on 2020-12-03 Permalink
Yeah, that Wollstonecraft monument. You suffered a lot in your short life, Mary, so we’ll honor you and your early feminist thinking by making a statue that looks like you’re stepping off the page of Penthouse Magazine, complete with a big pubic bush to get all the boys riled up. FFS!
(I have no problem with nudie statues, but there’s a context issue with this one…)