Miséricorde plan unsettles many
Individuals and citizen groups are unsettled by the possibility that Hydro‑Quebec might want the Miséricorde block for its new downtown substation.
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Chris 09:14 on 2025-07-22 Permalink
And yet people seem to love electricity. Pity it doesn’t grow on trees.
MarcG 10:02 on 2025-07-22 Permalink
Classic
Chris 11:54 on 2025-07-22 Permalink
And in your comic metaphor, which is “improving society somewhat”: building an electric substation, or blocking it?
steph 12:31 on 2025-07-22 Permalink
Their Decoy Effect is working. The empty lot is looking like a better option every day.
Nicholas 16:41 on 2025-07-22 Permalink
I’ve said before the issue is there aren’t many places to put this, as it’s downtown, and power demand is growing, especially due to electric vehicles. But that lends to an obvious solution: ban cars. No cars in downtown, no charging in downtown, problem solved. Buses would be faster, the STM fare revenues would jump and we wouldn’t need to spend money on bike lanes because you only need bike lanes to protect people from cars. Sewer replacement would be much cheaper. And with no cars there’d be no need for such a wide René-Lévesque, so we could narrow it and put the replacement substation on half of the street and a new transit line on the other half, and turn the old station into an extended park, with a slide and toboggan hill.
I’m half joking, but I’d love to see what the province would think of this plan.
walkerp 22:39 on 2025-07-22 Permalink
You’d get my vote!
CE 11:04 on 2025-07-23 Permalink
Mine too! A few years ago, I walked down the middle of Sherbrooke after an event had finished but before cars were allowed back on the street and was astonished by how nice it was. I had never fully appreciated the mix of architecture and the views down the hill at the intersections. A car-free downtown would be wonderful!
Kate 12:39 on 2025-07-23 Permalink
Unfortunately, we couldn’t even keep a small perimeter of downtown free of cars for a few hours for Car‑Free Day, back when that was a thing.