Coderre talks about covering highways
Denis Coderre is talking about covering part of the Decarie autoroute and the Ville-Marie and putting green space on top.
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GC 20:15 on 2021-10-10 Permalink
“des installations sportives extérieures” More rodeos, then?
dhomas 11:51 on 2021-10-11 Permalink
My money would be on the installation of more baseball diamonds. He did a lot of that during his last mandate, whether people wanted them or not
mare 15:09 on 2021-10-11 Permalink
Just the recently covered, and rather short, part of the Ville Marie cost almost 150 million dollars. Decarie is about 50 times as long, so that will be prohibitively expensive. (And also a federal and provincial decision and not a municipal as is becoming a usual pattern with the election promises Coderre blurts out.)
It would be great to reunite the split NDG, but there are certainly better uses of that amount of money.
Mark 16:03 on 2021-10-11 Permalink
The part of Ville Marie that was covered was about 175 meters, and it cost 150M. He isn’t proposing to cover all of Decarie, just the part from Queen-Mary to Côte-Saint-Catherine, which is about 800 meters. So the 700 million price tag isn’t that far off.
That being said, this seems like a last-minute campaign-style idea that he just threw together to steal some of Projet Montreal’s approach. I think it would be a good project, but I doubt it would get ever get done with him as mayor.
GC 16:41 on 2021-10-11 Permalink
Yeah. Let’s busy the REM de l’Est, instead.
JaneyB 17:25 on 2021-10-11 Permalink
@GC – you forgot the clowns. Rodeos with clowns. This is Montreal, after all.
Kate 19:03 on 2021-10-11 Permalink
Queen Mary to Côte Ste-Catherine is a pretty grim stretch. I know, because I lived there for a few years as a kid. Granted, you have the Snowdon Deli, but there’s not much else livening up the area. There are at least three service stations, some vaguely industrial stuff, and a row of abysmal gray brick buildings on the east side from Édouard-Montpetit to Côte Ste-Catherine. Nothing that needs a vastly expensive park plunked down in front of it.
Faiz Imam 21:37 on 2021-10-11 Permalink
@ kate, perhaps that makes it a good option then? Once that section is covered there would be massive potential for redevelopment with little NIMBY pressure.
Wheras the parts that are less bad by definition dont need to be covered as much to be tolerable.
dhomas 09:51 on 2021-10-12 Permalink
I would love to see all our open trench highways covered, of course. That said, it’s the jurisdiction of the MTQ, and therefore the provincial government. Instead putting pressure on the province to correct past mistakes like these, I would prefer the provincial government take any money they might allocate to these projects and instead preemptively address mistakes they are about to make, like burying the REM de l’Est.
Those trenches have been there for years and it would take the same effort to fix them later. We have the opportunity to “fix” the REM before it happens.
jeather 10:10 on 2021-10-12 Permalink
Queen Mary to Cote St Catherine has a number of restaurants and some stores, not just the Snowdon Deli. It’s not amazing, but it’s picked up in the past 10 years. And it’s near a lot of residential areas, so I can see a park being pretty successful in theory — though what will they do with the actually quite congested service road and the crossings?
MarcG 10:33 on 2021-10-12 Permalink
It seems a bit like the stupid park they built in the middle of the Bonaventure – who wants to hang out sandwiched between traffic? (Besides this guy, of course https://goo.gl/maps/YhKCrBGQs7Pg3qW17)
GC 10:49 on 2021-10-12 Permalink
Can anyone around Griffintown comment on the use of that park? Whenever I’ve gone by in someone’s car–which is even less often during the Pandemic–there’s been people at the outdoor gym there. I’m sure it’s also more pleasant to walk through than going under the old elevated highway. But do locals actually sit there, picnic there, etc.? Or is just to use the gym, walk their dogs, get through as fast as possible?
GC 10:51 on 2021-10-12 Permalink
Oh, JaneyB, how could I forget? Of course, the clowns…