Consequently,
More than $ 10 million:
The district of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce sees expenses of up to $ 10.7 million to green and make a “nerve” walk welcoming more than 15,000 pedestrians, said The duty. However, it will first be necessary to repair the underground infrastructure, hence the imposing invoice associated with this project.
As early as 2019. Nevertheless, the district began a pilot project aimed at reserving for pedestrians part of rue Jean-Brillant, which links the University of Montreal and several residential buildings in the Côte-des-Neiges chemin, the main commercial artery of the Homonymous district. Meanwhile, Since then. Furthermore, several citizen consultations have taken place in order to improve this project, that the borough has decided to make permanent.
Today. Meanwhile, most of this colorful walk is reserved for pedestrians, while part of it remains reserved for the passage of cars. Moreover, “It really improved the pedestrian experience of the sector. more than $ 10 million Furthermore, because instead of being confined to very small sidewalks, now the population really has space to circulate,” notes the mayor of the district, Gracia Kasoki Katahwa, which qualifies this sector as “super nerve” because of its high traffic.
Greening. archaeological excavations – More than $ 10 million
However, the borough intends to green this shared street further and install sidewalk projections as well as other arrangements that will help slow road traffic in order to increase the safety of pedestrians who take this walk, frequented both by workers and by students.
To do this, elected officials of the borough voted on Monday evening for the granting of a contract of almost $ 8.6 million to the company Super, the lowest admissible tenderer. The company will take advantage of this site to carry out sewer. aqueduct work under this street, whose underground infrastructure is in poor condition. An archaeological intervention will then be carried out to check if more than $ 10 million vestiges linked to an old Aboriginal presence are there.
The company will then see the lighting and landscaping of this shared street, 230 meters long, whose sidewalks will be wider.
« [À la suite du] Success of the temporary installations which allowed the pedestrianization of a section of rue Jean-Brillant between the avenues Decelles. Gatineau, the work on rue Jean-Brillant aim to make permanent pedestrianization of this section, “said decision-making documents that were approved last night in the district council. It is specified that this project will improve the “active trips” on this street. whose redevelopment will have the effect of enlarging the Jean-Brillant Park, which it runs along, and which is itself the subject of work, evaluated at $ 6.2 million, aimed at renovating the chalet found there.
By including various accessories costs, the borough sees a maximum expenditure of $ 10.7 million to improve the Jean-Brillant walk. A large sum more than $ 10 million when it is considered that its annual budget has reached 80.2 million this year.
“It will further promote pedestrians. the slowdown in traffic,” explains Mme Kasoki Katahwa in order to justify this investment, which will also allow the installation of a raised pedestrian crossing at the intersection of rue Jean-Brillant and avenue Gatineau.
The project also provides for the addition of urban furniture on this pedestrian street. which will continue to welcome cultural and artistic events in summer and winter. “There are exhibitions each year on the pedestrian part. ” said the mayor, who assures that “the pedestrian part of rue Jean-Brillant will be animated four seasons”.
More than $ 10 million
Prevent floods
The district also hopes that adding green spaces on this shared street. which will host a series of trees and plants adapted to wetlands, will contribute to better retention of rainwater in this sector in order to reduce more than $ 10 million the risk of floods in the event of significant precipitation.
“Today. we know the impact of the torrential rains,” said M in this regardme Kasoki Katahwa, who hopes that the development of “draining projections”, within the framework of this project, will help limit the risk that sewagement occurs in this very inhabited sector.
The site, which will start this fall, should stretch until November 2026.
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