West Gatineau Tramway & Downtown Loop | Proposed

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Originally Posted by Multi-modal

Man, City staff was very deceptive with Council on what they were voting on. As I noted before, the report wasn't clear that it was NOT endorsing the STO option that allowed for pedestrianization of Wellington Street. Most of the councilors stated that they were supportive of pedestrianization. Leiper even directly asked whether the staff report would preclude pedestrianization, and Vivi Chi said something to the effect of "well future Council could vote to pedestrianize Wellington in the future". Vivi didn't make it clear that by voting for the staff report Councilors were effectively NOT endorsing STO's pedestrianization option.

Council was supportive of pedestrianization, yet voted for the staff report that recommended against pedestrianization. Why? Because staff was incredibly confusing with the presentation of their staff report.

*Edit - Menard and McKenney also asked again why the staff report seemed to be not recommending pedestrianization (which is true) - and Vivi/Manconi mislead council AGAIN. They were super confusing - its maddening. If I was a STO consultant trying to interpret this meeting/direction I would be super unsure about what Council wanted. The approved staff report does not reflect the priorities stated by Council.

To be fair, that's exactly what Leiper asked. (IIRC)