I am not deeply offended by the light but don't have a clue why it would be needed, as there are no residences on the south side of the street and the only places people might want to go near the cliff are industrial joints people all use a car to get to anyway.
I am more of a stop sign guy anyway.
Someone will eventually prove that people drive slower when there are stop signs as there is no point in speeding up to catch the light.
Good point about stops signs versus traffic lights, except that more often than not, drivers will simply slow but NOT stop, which gives pedestrians the jitters--especially these days with distracted driving seemingly all the rage!
ReplyDeleteSchool-children also need that extra sense of security with a traffic light--push button-type or not.
I think this is just a temporary measure during reconfiguration of the area surrounding the Upper Lachine Road - St-Jacques criss-crossing under/over pass.
ReplyDeleteAccording to city plans:
http://www.urb.umontreal.ca/realisations/docs/EFFA2012/AtelierME2.pdf
Belgrave Ave. is to be displaced further west to align with its counterpart north of Upper Lachine. This will allow the building of new housing on the vacated area.
Thanks. I had not seen this. I find it criminally stupid that they are building on one of the last pieces of green space in an area with absolutely none left. But then this part of town has always been incredibly badly run, so what could you expect...
ReplyDeleteAccording to the same document, more green space is to be had as they expand the Belvedere Terry Fox in both west and east directions and link it up somehow with the Oxford street park.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Decarie expressway between de Maisonneuve and Upper Lachine is to becovered and converted to green space all the way to Girouard.
Time to move, Kristian.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I somehow think of you as more the "Westmount-type".
...LOWER Westmount, I'll be bound. ;-)
Thanks for reading the small print. The idea of Terry Fox Park ever being anything to anybody is a farce. It's nice that there's green there but trying to get people there is never going to work. Who wants kids playing on a cliff near the woods known to having dodgy activity? And as for the other green space they want to build, it sounds like a great place to move that basketball court that ruined Oxford Park. Can't wait until next election, I'm going to put some fires under the candidates asses on their mismanagement.
ReplyDeleteTerry Fox park might be more successful if an appropriate lookout were to be built there,
ReplyDeleteAs it stands today, the scrub brush and trees block the view until the winter months at least.
I used to cycle through it from time to time and seldom saw anyone actually sitting there but I suppose that piece of ground is better off as a park than just another lot in which to erect a condo!
Looking at what they're doing there right now, I would say they're no longer following the plan that would have allowed for housing. They're simply repaving the old west-bound road and grading the slope.
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