Driver dies in crash on Park Avenue
A driver was killed in a crash on Park Avenue beside Jeanne‑Mance Park early Sunday.
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Ian 19:37 on 2024-05-26 Permalink
It is hard to imagine how speed was not a factor …
CE 22:05 on 2024-05-26 Permalink
That stretch of Parc is basically a highway for a short stretch between two large city streets and really encourages fast speeds. It’s also confusing in a way that creates some chaos. I feel like the interchange was torn down just a couple years too early. Had they done it in the 2010s, I think that area would look a lot different.
Ian 08:32 on 2024-05-27 Permalink
I am honestly surprised how few tickets get handed out for speeding on that stretch, it seems like it would be easy pickings. Since the speed limit went from 50 to 40 the actual speed (more like 55-60) didn’t really seem to change, especially as everyone is jockeying for position. If the southbound and northbound lanes were more clearly & physically divided at Duluth I think it would go a long way to slowing things down, like 2 lanes south for Pins west, 2 for Pins west/ Parc south, and going north, 2 for Côte Ste Kitty/ up the mountain, 2 for Parc north/ Mont Royal.
It’s really only a speedway between Mont Royal and Pins, everywhere elese there is enough delivery and local traffic to naturally slow traffic flow – so dividing the lanes would help. Physical dividers psychologically narrow the space available so people slow down – it’s the same reason the highway crews put up turnpikes in construction zones on actual freeways.
Joey 10:28 on 2024-05-27 Permalink
If ever there was a spot for some speed cameras. Either they would work, and drivers would stay below whatever the limit is (which nobody, absolutely nobody, currently does) – see the stretch of southbound Cote Des Neiges between the Boulevard and Cedar – or the amount of money it would generate would pay for a Parc Ave SRB. Understanding that the city has to wait for the province to act, it makes no sense that there aren’t cops parked permanently on that stretch looking for speeders. BTW the fact that the mountain and the park are separated by a highway came up quite a bit in the consultations on JMP and the cote placide of the mountain…