Ville-Marie

• Pedestrianize Sainte-Catherine Street year-round between Papineau and Saint-Hubert in collaboration with Village residents, the SDC, and local organizations, and gradually pedestrianize certain sections of Sainte-Catherine West in consultation with the community

• Create sustainable mobility corridors, bus and express bus lanes, and priority traffic lights for buses on major arteries, including René-Lévesque, Sherbrooke, Ontario, St-Urbain, Notre-Dame, Iberville, and Frontenac.
• Implement a local urban planning and mobility plan (PLUM) that takes into account different realities and organizes public consultations on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis.
  • Improve the sticker system by including stickers for visitors and pooling large private parking lots and partners in the city center.
  • Eliminate through traffic around schools and in neighborhoods, particularly Marguerite-Bourgeois, Garneau, and Champlain schools.
  • Add reserved parking spaces for car sharing.
  • Create green alleys and white alleys to improve quality of life year-round.
  • Create a small square near the Saint-Jacques market, particularly around Wolfe Street, to promote accessibility and activity, with a pedestrian-priority street.
  • Make downtown streets and intersections safer with temporary infrastructure (pavement islands, virtual curbs, flower boxes), in collaboration with the SDC.
  • Increase the use of cargo bikes for deliveries in the downtown area.
  • Develop a downtown transportation management plan with “low-emission arteries” to limit access by gasoline-powered motor vehicles.
• Develop a bicycle plan for Ville-Marie, with a particular focus on the city center, and secure existing routes.
  • Add a bike lane on Atateken.
  • Separate the Commune route from the pedestrian crossing.
  • Complete the Peel, Viger, and Saint-Antoine REV routes.
  • Extend and perpetuate the bike lane on Ontario.
  • Improve the safety of existing bike routes such as Notre-Dame, René-Lévesque, and De Maisonneuve.
  • Better connect student hubs (Concordia, McGill) to residential neighborhoods and public transit through continuous, protected bike routes.
  • Add bike lanes in the city center
  • Secure the Guy/Côte-des-Neiges route with protected bike lanes between René-Lévesque and Sherbrooke.
• Redevelop metro exits to make them greener, include public markets and/or mixed-use real estate projects, among other things by revitalizing and calming the Saint-Laurent and Atwater stations.

• Ensure that no street is without trees by accelerating planting, thereby reducing heat islands and flooding

• Accelerate the creation of sponge parks and transform streets into sponge streets by taking advantage of all infrastructure work to integrate absorbent infrastructure and reduce the risk of flooding.

• Create new parks and green spaces, and continue to improve existing park infrastructure, including:
  • A new park in Old Montreal
  • A green space in the Quartier des Spectacles
  • A community garden on Gosford Street in Chinatown and redesign the park plan
  • Expand Dieppe Park
  • Revise Persillier-Lachapelle Park to better meet the current needs of users.
  • A pilot project for community and collective gardens on one of the large institutional properties in the Peter McGill neighborhood
  • Create water features in certain public squares in the Peter McGill neighborhood to cool the spaces in summer.
  • Increase the supply of public family parks, including through partnerships with private landowners to ensure public access.
  • Create an “Adopt a Curb” program, inspired by the tree square adoption program, to give citizens more green space.

• Create good neighbor committees and brigades with community organizations, business associations, and residents to improve cohabitation, particularly in areas near supervised injection sites and where there is a higher concentration of resources for vulnerable people.
• Create more social housing through differentiated zoning and incentives to get the most vulnerable people off the streets.
• Focus on prevention, support for people experiencing homelessness or addiction, harmonious coexistence in public spaces, and the fight against exploitation and sexual violence against women and girls to ensure a safe downtown core.

Culture, sports, and recreation

• Enliven and enhance programming for families, youth, and newcomers in the Peter-McGill sector through the new Sanaaq center, making Sanaaq a true hub for community engagement, and hold one borough council meeting there per year.

• Install outdoor gyms and playgrounds in the Saint-Jacques neighborhood, particularly at Espace Faubourg Québec and Charles-Mayer Park.

• Develop public access to the river, including urban beaches on land such as the CN site and a promontory at Pied-du-Courant.

• Protect cultural creation, dissemination, and commercialization centers from the effects of gentrification by using tools such as vertical zoning to protect artist studios and smaller exhibition spaces.

• Offer more sports facilities in Peter-McGill by pooling CSSDM school infrastructure and taking advantage of new school planning.

• Encourage the temporary occupation of vacant commercial buildings in the city center by cultural creation and dissemination spaces through regulatory relief and/or financial incentives, such as a reduced tax rate.

Memory and heritage

• Showcase LGBTQ+ heritage in a dedicated space on Sainte-Catherine Street, paying tribute to LGBTQ+ activists such as Joe Rose at the Frontenac metro station and Laurent McCutcheon in the Village.

• Create a cultural space under the Jacques Cartier Bridge to showcase industrial ruins, similar to the Mémoire neighborhood in Old Montreal.

• Support non-profits and relevant housing consultation bodies with a dedicated fund of $500,000.

• Protect existing housing stock from speculation and deterioration by continuing inclusive zoning efforts

• Improve access to local businesses in medium-density areas to promote a diverse and accessible local offering and pop-up shops.

• Transform Ontario Street into a dynamic and attractive local commercial artery by reducing through traffic and making the 125 bus line more efficient and fluid.

• Create a local initiatives fund (FIL) in the Latin Quarter and enhance the one in the Village to strengthen their cultural, economic, and social identities.

• Develop a universal accessibility action plan for the Ville-Marie borough.

• Dress up the facades of vacant stores to liven up the area and reinforce cleanliness and a sense of security.