SMF promises to speed up street work
SMF has promised to the chamber of commerce to speed up the work on Ste‑Catherine Street West, between Peel and St‑Marc, delivering it in 2029 rather than 2030.
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DeWolf 22:12 on 2026-02-26 Permalink
“La nouvelle mairesse compte éventuellement implanter une forme de piétonnisation temporaire sur la section ouest de cette artère majeure, mais de façon prudente et après avoir consulté les commerçants du secteur.”
Well at least we know she isn’t anti-pedestrianization, which is something to be grateful for, I guess.
Kate 22:39 on 2026-02-26 Permalink
Temporary, though. Whatever that ends up meaning.
Jonathan 10:52 on 2026-02-27 Permalink
For sure the commerçants with the loudest voices will say no, and then she’ll be off the hook
azrhey 11:23 on 2026-02-27 Permalink
I question the “artère majeure”… sure it is an important street…. but artère majeure sounds to me like René-Lévesque or Sherbrooke, Large streets that can move a lot of vehicles relatively fast. Ste Catherine, is famous. important for shops and what not, but I wouldn’t call it an artère, even less importante.
Why anyone, save for some particularly special reasons, few and far between, would want to drive on Ste Catherine?
/pedantic
Kate 12:08 on 2026-02-27 Permalink
azrhey, there’s that whole American thing about driving down the strip, especially in summer with the top of the convertible down. I don’t know whether anyone does this on Ste‑Catherine here, but where else would you do it?
Nicholas 14:46 on 2026-02-27 Permalink
St Hubert was the other drive down the strip street, sometimes compared to Times Square or Vegas. It is no longer that. The lower portion of the Main and in Little Italy has a bit of that, and you could argue some other places like Laurier West. Imagine the push back if you tried to pedestrianized Greene.
Ian 16:39 on 2026-02-27 Permalink
In the 80s Ste Kitty was totally the strip. People would drive up and down very slowly from about Crescent to St. Larry, then back, Friday and Saturday night. This is of course back in the day that there were also street dealers (ash-coke, ash-coke), half the stores between Atwater and Guy were porn shops, and the corner of St Larry was all hookers… so obviously times have changed some.
Montreal used to be a LOT grittier.
steph 10:48 on 2026-02-28 Permalink
Back when I used to enjoy hanging out on the strip I noticed that firetrucks would drive down St-Cat VERY often. I don’t know if it’s because it was an emergency corridor (for trucks departing from the Saint-Mathieu station) or just because the firemen liked to show off that they had a bigger engine vs the other competing sports cars/convertibles. It amuses me thinking it was the former.