{"id":2379,"date":"2012-08-22T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/22\/consensus-on-building-jacques-bizard\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:42:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:42:03","slug":"consensus-on-building-jacques-bizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/22\/consensus-on-building-jacques-bizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Consensus on building Jacques Bizard corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\nSome Pierrefonds-Roxboro issues remain unresolved<\/b><\/div>\n
\n\n<\/div>\n
\nBy Robert Frank<\/div>\n
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/div>\n
\n\n<\/div>\n
\nFive years ago, Pierrefonds-Roxboro passed a resolution making Jacques Bizard its highest traffic priority. This week, Mayor Monique Worth affirmed to The Suburban<\/i> in an interview that the Jacques Bizard project has the support of the other cities\u2019 mayors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cThis is something that we all agree on,\u201d she said. \u201cWe held a meeting in Dollard des Ormeaux about three years ago at which we agreed on transportation infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nLikewise, both Kirkland mayor Ed Janiszewski and Pointe Claire mayor Bill McMurchie told The Suburban <\/i>that the Jacques Bizard corridor is long overdue. \u00cele Bizard residents desperately want the direct link extended to the Lakeshore General Hospital and oppose construction of the final highway 440 link that would join Montreal with Laval through their town.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThis week, Liberal cabinet ministers Yolande James and Geoffrey Kelley, both of whom are currently running for re-election to the Quebec legislature, told The Suburban <\/i>in separate interviews that they are prepared to support Jacques Bizard, as did Paola Hawa, the Coalition pour l\u2019avenir du Qu\u00e9bec <\/i>candidate who is running against Kelley in Jacques-Cartier riding. Neither Parti qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/i> candidate either riding replied to telephone or electronic mail messages before The Suburban<\/i> went to press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cIf there is a consensus\u2014which quite frankly there has not always been\u2014on moving this project forward straight away and as a priority, I will support what citizens require,\u201d said James.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cParticularly north of the 40, there is great congestion along the north-south arteries and anything which can add capacity will be helpful,\u201d agreed Kelley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cIs there a magic formula?\u201d asked Hawa. \u201cProbably not. But what we do know is that right now the transportation infrastructure that we have is insufficient. It doesn\u2019t serve the reality of the West Island.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nDollard mayor Janiszewski, first elected in 1984, recalled how the project has failed to gain traction despite three decades of efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cIn 1987, Kirkland mayor Sam Elkas was elected [provincial] Minister of Transport and set aside money to build the overpass and [the municipalities] were going to share the other $16 million to pay for construction of the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cWe all agreed except for the Pierrefonds mayor, whom the town manager convinced to allow residences to be built there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nJaniszewski said that since the 1980s, \u201cno Pierrefonds-Roxboro administration has found a way to put a four-lane highway in front of all these residences.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cThey would have to expropriate and tear down at least one side of the road to make it viable,\u201d he explained, \u201cwhich would add $15-20 million to the cost of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cThe other municipalities are not anxious to pay that extra money because of Pierrefonds\u2019 selfishness.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cObviously there is no agreement,\u201d Janiszewski concluded, acknowledging that despite the best of intentions, successive Pierrefonds mayors have been unable to get their citizens to commit to the additional expense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cThe only agreement that we have is that it would be nice to have it.\u201d <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some Pierrefonds-Roxboro issues remain unresolved By Robert Frank www.thesuburban.com Five years ago, Pierrefonds-Roxboro passed a resolution making Jacques Bizard its highest traffic priority. 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