Respecting a citizen means putting a 30 foot high privacy screen in front of houses? was outraged the mayor of Bois-des-Filion, Gilles Blanchette, in front of the assembled Filionois, to express their dissatisfaction with the Ministry of Transport, which they believe is deaf.
The mayor of the small community north of Montreal complained that the previous discussions and hundreds of letters had only been dead ends.
“We have provided solutions, we want the government to take them into account and come back to us with concrete things. »
— A quote from Gilles Blanchette, Mayor of Bois-des-Filion
The project, which extends 11.8 km, consists of the construction of a dual carriageway with three lanes in each direction. The opening is planned for the end of 2027.
Demonstrators are calling for the noise protection wall to be dismantled in order to maintain the quality of life [leurs] Fellow citizens of 39th Avenue.
They also denounce the construction of a two-meter high flyover in the city center that will disfigure the cityscape. Besides we [sera] forced to take a detour because the world passes through our city, it is not the same, added one of the citizens at the Radio-Canada microphone.
The plans envisage the closure of the Avenue de l’Érablière intersection, used daily by around 3,000 vehicles around the Place du Parc residential area, according to the town hall, which rather defends a safe development of this intersection.
Mayor Gilles Blanchette also recalled that the expropriations for the design of this infrastructure date back to … 50 years precisely in April. A total of three streets, 87 houses and 30 shops passed under the vermin peak, leaving a large scar in the heart of our city, counts the Bois-des-Filion website.
Coinciding with Mobilization Day, April 1, finned leaflets were distributed to put pressure on the Department of Transportation to prevent municipal grievances from ending in a fishtail.
With information from Charlotte Dumoulin