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Originally Posted by JHikka
Sorry but why would the city pay for anything to connect a private development being built on a highway offramp to a private shopping mall just so that its resident can exit safely? If the city were to do anything it would be to deny this project from proceeding in the first place as it's in such a ridiculous location that the only thing that could possibly save it would be such a massive road diet on the surrounding arterials that the cost would simply be prohibitive.
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I have to correct you here. I didn't say the city should pay to provide access to the mall. The city should pay for infrastructure linking to the LRT station. This is one of the big transfer station and it barely has any connectivity to the neighborhood it's in. Improve connectivity from across St-Laurent Blvd. doesn't only benefit the new planned development, but also hotels/motels, commercial, offices, restaurants.
Also, the off ramp stops at Labelle st.
The new development is being built along Lemieux St. which isn't an off-ramp and is adjacent to a mall access road/bridge. We have to stop saying this project is built inside or on a Hwy on/off-ramp because this is misleading. You create the image that the development will be built inside a very high speed traffic area, and people will associate the proximity to the hwy traffic jam at the split. I may add, the only vehicles able to use the nearby off-ramp are coming from the 174. The 417 vehicles have all been diverted to Innes and aviation parkway exits.