Old Port to be re-spruced
It doesn’t feel like so long ago that the Old Port was spruced up under the direction of Peter Rose and Aurèle Cardinal, but that was the 1990s, and now the Canada Lands Company is putting $50 million into a further sprucing up of the area.
But, in tune with the kind of problem spotted in the post below on the Mobility Montreal website, the Canada Lands site directs us to the Old Port of Montreal site for further information – but that site spawns warnings about a dead security certificate then apparently has nothing about this new plan.
PatrickC 18:49 on 2021-08-20 Permalink
Seeing the expression “sprucing up” highlighted in your post made me curious about where the phrase came from. Nothing to do with the tree, it turns out. Rather, it’s connected to an old English name for Prussia, which produced a leather used in purses considered elegant at the time. So the handbag obsession goes way back…
MarcG 19:43 on 2021-08-20 Permalink
Thanks PatrickC, that’s interesting. What did it say about Kate’s usage in the post title/sidebar ‘re-spruced’? 🙂
DeWolf 10:32 on 2021-08-21 Permalink
You can tell it was designed in the early 90s because the amount of space given over to cars is astonishing. The road that runs along the waterfront has been permanently pedestrianized for years but it’s still just an asphalt tarmac with no shade. Replacing it with nice paving stones and planting a couple of rows of trees would go a long way to making it a beautiful place to walk.
And then there’s the issue of the bike path that suddenly disappears between St-Laurent and the Bonsecours Market…
Orr 16:03 on 2021-08-24 Permalink
If they want to make the Old Port nicer and back to respecting the architectural scale and heritage of the jewel that is Old Montreal, they should get ride of the giant oversized ferris wheel eyesore.