Invasion of the traffic cones: Montreal’s pandemic recovery is threatened by poor planning
Montrealers have become so used to orange traffic cones blocking their streets that the construction pylon is half-jokingly referred to as the city’s unofficial symbol.
The seemingly interminable roadwork is seen as a major impediment to reviving Montreal’s downtown after the pandemic led to an exodus of office employees and a surge in remote work, leaving retail merchants and landlords struggling to survive. What’s more, fully 94 per cent of downtown streets, the study found, were totally or partially blocked at one point in the year to last March because of road maintenance, building construction or repairs to underground utility lines. Worse still, one-third of all streets in the core were totally or partially blocked at the same time last fall.
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