Residents of Saint-Hubert Street are upset and want heavy-duty vehicles to stop driving down this particularly narrow lane of Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal.
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On this small stretch of Saint-Hubert, between Mont-Royal and Saint-Joseph, incidents are increasing: breakdowns in parked vehicles, concert horns, rudeness, insults, the problems keep coming.
While trucks are not allowed to drive there, our journalist Yves Poirier found on the spot on Tuesday morning that several truck drivers drive there, claiming, for example, local deliveries.
“What is it like to drive on this road?” asks our journalist.
“It’s Mar**,” says the trucker before driving off with a bang. In order to turn, he has to go backwards and go forwards again. To do this, he closes the rear trunk of the parked vehicle.
The Avenue du Mont-Royal, which is traffic-calmed in summer, shifts the flow of traffic to Saint-Hubert.
School buses, tour buses, trucks, trucks drive by there. Misted-up doors and torn mirrors are part of everyday life for the residents.
“Rue Saint-Hubert, between Mont-Royal and Saint-Joseph, is chaotic all year round. We call for a short-term blocking of access to Rue Saint-Hubert, the narrow section at the level of Mont-Royal. In the medium term, we are asking for the reversal of a one-way street on a small section to block through traffic and heavy goods vehicles on the road,” explains residents’ spokeswoman Geneviève Savard.
Citizens who tried to park on the sidewalks to avoid seeing their damaged vehicle were fined $175.
TVA Nouvelles is awaiting a response from elected community officials.