Oh yes, once again Boulevard St. Laurent is going through major repairs. This time though, the city has put up a sign with the details of the work. Thanks, that helps a lot.
Not having enough repairs done last year, the digging up started once again, this time it’s Gaz Métro turn. The city intends to add a few “cosmetic changes” to the boulevard by enlarging the sidewalks (aren’t those sidewalks brand spanking-new?): addition of lamps and trees, insertion of historic indicators (if this continues, there will be no one who’d care to read them!), taxi stands, bus stops and even the installation of parking for bicycles on the sidewalk.(Uh?). The good news, the bicycle parking is already done, at least on this side of the street:
Expect nothing but dust, noise and traffic jams in Blvd St Laurent between Sherbrooke and Mont-Royal. Hopefully, the local merchants will not go out of business. One more year of construction hell, then (crossing fingers) back to normal. Unless, of course, someone else decides to install a baby-stroller path, or something similar to it.
Media Coverage [Montreal Gazette]:
Pain on the Main: Work plans raise a stink
How city hall is killing St. Laurent Blvd. – one construction barrier at a time
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don’t you hate when they keep digging up the streets? i know it has to be done but sure is a drag on the traffic. in vancouver we’re building infrastructure for 2010 winter olympics and they’re building a light rapid transit line from the airport right to downtown, underneath one of our busiest streets – Cambie St. so traffic is diverted and it makes the other main arteries very congested. Come visit for 2010!
I know. I have to drive up st Laurent on my way to work every day and I tell ya…it is hell.
It’s not so much the traffic that drives me insane, because st laurent always been a busy street, but the noise, the trucks coming in and out, the dirt everywhere…can’t leave the window open.
I really feel sorry for the people that have to live/work in those conditions. It’s been more than a year of this madness.
There goes another Grand Prix weekend on the boulevard, right out the window.