Sponge parks handle downpour
The city’s new sponge parks handily soaked up Wednesday’s tropical storm and kept nearby streets from flooding. More of them are planned.
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MarcG 18:55 on 2024-07-11 Permalink
I was wondering what that big project in Verdun was. Water used to flood the bike path at that corner for days after a rain and the corner has a huge amount of wasted space that I hope will be greened as part of this.
DeWolf 19:06 on 2024-07-11 Permalink
I passed by the Place des Fleurs-de-Macadam today, thinking there would be lots of water after 24 hours of intense rain. But it was completely dry, aside from the mist that was falling this afternoon. Pretty impressive.
Ian 09:41 on 2024-07-12 Permalink
Oh neat, I had no idea that Dickie-Moore was a sponge park – I just thought it was a nice little neighbourhood park with tons of wildflowers in what used to be a crummy brownfield lot. Great project! They should do it with the whole centre lane on Parc, Mont-Royal to Van Horne. I wonder if existing boulevards like Clark or St-Joseph have a similar effect or could be converted to this use?
CE 09:51 on 2024-07-12 Permalink
The wide medians separating car traffic from the bike lanes on streets like Clark and Rachel seem to have been built just a bit before the sponge park idea started being implemented in Montreal. I wouldn’t be surprised if future projects like those incorporate it into those types of medians. I’m surprised it took Montreal so long to start making these, I saw them in Portland OR about 15 years ago.
steph 11:53 on 2024-07-12 Permalink
@MarcG https://projetmontreal.org/en/news/le-plus-important-parc-eponge-de-montreal-verra-le-jour-dans-larrondissement-de-verdun