The MUHC traffic plan (see illustration below) would rebuild the de Maisonneuve, Upper Lachine, Decarie St. intersection to get cars south to the main entrance of the hospital on newly two-way Decarie Street. This plan will concentrate so many hospital-goers into this already-busy intersection that it will create traffic chaos for all around...
NDG commuters returning from downtown who exit the 20 on St-Jacques will face 6 new or more-complex lights as they make their way slowly up Decarie St. and onto de Maisonneuve westbound. Even those continuing straight on St-Jacques to Cavendish face 2 new lights, as well as a much-busier Cavendish, the only other way north under the train tracks.
Please contact Michael Applebaum at 872 4863 or mapplebaum@ville.montreal.qc.ca to oppose this attack on NDG's quality of life.
All residents and merchants of St-Raymond who will be more boxed in to an already-isolated neighborhood. The MUHC plan either narrows or closes Upper Lachine at Decarie St., thereby blocking access to upper NDG for St-Raymond parents who have no schools left in their neighborhood. Merchants will lose clients finding it difficult to return to the metro station, Westmount or upper NDG.
Please call Marcel Tremblay at 872 1191 to stop this unfair targeting of your neighborhood in his riding.
Residents of Cote St-Antoine, Northclife and Vendome, who will see increased traffic from Westmount trying to get to the MUHC. Even if an underpass under the train tracks is impossible at Claremont, this traffic can come down under-used Glen to a hospital entrance on St-Jacques. NDG is already doing its part in accommodating all the MUHC traffic from the Sherbrooke exits.
Please contact your Quebec MNA rcopeman@assnat.qc.ca or 489 7581 and tell him to stand up for NDG.
Vendome Metro users: de Maisonneuve in front of the metro station is already slated to get much busier with doctors' offices and traffic going east leaving the hospital. Will it also be able to handle traffic from Westmount going west waiting to turn left,, southbound onto Decarie St., to go to the hospital? This will delay all buses approaching the metro station and make pedestrian crossings more dangerous. The closing or narrowing of Upper Lachine will also delay the 90 and 104 buses.
Taxpayers who are paying for the wasteful MUHC traffic plan, which includes a rushed Addington/de Maisonneuve exit against residents wishes. Next, NDG traffic will be jammed-up for years of expensive construction to widen to two-ways the Decarie St. underpass and make de Maisonneuve two ways to Addington, discarding the already-built four-lane Upper Lachine underpass/bridge (estimated to be worth $50 million if built today).
Please call arthur.porter@MUHC.mcgill.ca or 934 8328 and insist he rein in his traffic planners.
Residents of Decarie and Girouard who will face two directions of busy traffic and further loss of on-street parking. The alternative plan, which calls for Girouard to be one-way south and Decarie one-way north from St-Jacques to Sherbrooke, would allow residents to park all day on both sides of the street.
Alternative Plan: The MUHC planners must set the main vehicle entrance on St-Jacques, half-way up the hill from St-Henri, and build a new offshoot to the off-ramp from the 20 West, set higher into the hillside, so that through-traffic to NDG can go over the entrance and not be delayed. Hospital traffic from the south-west as well as Westmount (coming down the Glen and turning right onto St-Jacques) could get in and out without disturbing NDG. So could West Islanders, by taking an existing, unused exit from the 20 East, just before the Turcot interchange, that leads them directly to Carillon near Pullman, just below the St-Jacques entrance. They could return onto the 20 West by the Notre-Dame entrance just west of Carillon. Later an exit from the 15 South and an entrance to the 15 North could be built down here as well, perhaps even a tunnel directly from Pullman into the hospital's parking garage. In the meantime, traffic from the 15 South getting off at Sherbrooke or traffic from NDG could come down one-way Girouard all the way to St-Jacques, then left down the hill and left again into the hospital (under the 20 West exit). Vehicles could leave the hospital onto one-way north Decarie St. to return to upper NDG or the 15 North entrance at Sherbrooke.
Contact: NDG Residents Against the MUHC Traffic Plan at 514 678 5515 or via .
Please call us to join our campaign and get a sign up on your balcony
Links of interest:
Association des Résidants de CDN-NDG/CDN-NDG Residents' Association
Le Conseil communautaire Notre-Dame-de-Grâce/NDG Community Council
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Updated: 08/04/2007