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\nJacques Bizard corridor stalled until West Island mayors forge consensus <\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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By Robert Frank
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\nYolande James has voiced her commitment to support advocates of an extension to Highway 440 that would divert intercity truck traffic around the island and relieve Montreal’s congested arteries. <\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe have been pretty active in trying to facilitate this file as soon as possible,\u201d the Quebec cabinet minister and member for Nelligan riding told The Suburban<\/i> in a telephone interview from Baie Comeau. <\/p>\n

\nThe project would involve building an overpass at Highway 40 that would permit through traffic to take the east-west 440 beltway through Laval. <\/p>\n

\nShe explained that consensus among the municipalities through which the highway will pass, \u201cnotably with Pierrefonds\u201d, is what ought to permit the project to move forward.<\/p>\n

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\nLast week, Pointe Claire Mayor Bill McMurchie told The Suburban<\/i> that the province should give precedence to building the Jacques Bizard corridor, to relieve strain on the West Island’s overloaded north-south corridors.<\/div>\n
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That route would follow an unused Hydro Quebec right-of-way from \u00cele Bizard to the Lakeshore General Hospital. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI want to be supportive of a Jacques Bizard project that benefits the riding and people throughout the West Island and that has the support of the mayors,\u201d James emphasized, \u201cbut there has to be a certain amount of consensus before that project can move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI’m not against it and I want to be able to facilitate [construction of the Jacques Bizard corridor] once there is a consensus on a municipal level,\u201d James said, \u201cand from what I understand, that’s not yet the case.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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