Shop owners sign petition against bus lane
Merchants along Queen Mary Road are banding together to resist new bus and taxi lanes. Although only meant to operate for three hours daily on each side, they’re feared as ruining business for all the small stores along the street.
EmilyG 08:59 on 2022-08-10 Permalink
I don’t drive.
And since these merchants are resisting the new bus/taxi lanes, I’m tempted to not support them.
So they’d be losing business in that way, anyway.
Tim S. 09:25 on 2022-08-10 Permalink
Outside of some areas of the Plateau, I can think of very few parts of Montreal that have an actual parking problem, assuming healthy adults are willing to walk a block or so. I see so many crazy stunts in my neighbourhood, people turning u-turns and worse to get to a spot, or stopping in really dangerous places, when there’s plenty of free spaces around a corner and a hundred feet down.
DeWolf 11:17 on 2022-08-10 Permalink
There’s a city-owned surface parking lot behind the Metro supermarket on Queen Mary. It’s within a five-minute walk to pretty much every business in the area. Replace it with a multi-storey garage, ban all parking on Queen Mary, widen the sidewalks, plant more trees and install a permanent bus and taxi lane.
We need to stop treating our commercial streets like suburban strip malls where we expect customers to drive right up to the shop they’re visiting. Parking is necessary, just not on the street, and in many parts of town we already have off-street lots that are underutilized.
Same goes for St-Hubert. Half the street parking was removed, but the remaining parking makes the street feel completely overwhelmed by cars, and there are still several municipal parking lots nearby with direct connections to the plaza. Cars should really only be allowed on St-Hubert for deliveries and passenger pick-up/drop-off. It would be a much more pleasant street if that were the case.
Tux 10:35 on 2022-08-15 Permalink
Who parks on Queen Mary anyway? I mean, I know a lot of people do, I just can’t imagine why you would ever *plan to*. DeWolf has it right – pedestrianize Queen Mary! Boy would I love to see it come to life with terraces and booths, like the Main.