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Originally Posted by gehrhardt
I know there was a lot of talk about it WAAAAAAY back in the forum somewhere, but there are so many pages in this thread now, I can't find it. 
They will be widening it for sure (boulevard maybe?). There were rumours floating around that the Ultramar station and the strip mall next to it would be torn down so that the street could be rerouted a bit. |
This is what was in the TT back in May:
Paul St. to be fixed — in three years
Five lanes, decorative
lighting, underground
wiring planned for
busy Dieppe street
By James Foster
Times & TRanscRipT sTaff
The first phase of the reconfiguration
and reconstruction of Paul
Street will start this year, with most
of the work taking place next year,
Dieppe city council decided yesterday.
“It has to be done,” Mayor
Achille Maillet said after a special
mid-day council meeting.
“It’s past due, when you consider
that about 12 million people go to
the (Champlain Place) mall every
year.”
The total makeover of Paul
Street and the municipal infrastructure
underneath the street will cost
about $10 million. Phase one will
take three years and $6 million,
with about $1 million being spent
this year.
It will begin near Highway 15
(Veterans’ Highway) and proceed
southerly to Sunset Street. Phase two will
extend from there to Champlain Street.
Phase three will involve the area around the
intersection of Champlain and Paul streets,
possibly including access to lands behind the
existing Irving Mainway store that is not currently
accessible for development.
Staff told council and this newspaper that
the exact future configuration of Paul Street
depends on how negotiations end with landowners
along the busy commercial street.
However, residents can expect new intersections,
new entrances and exits from retailers
and services along Paul Street, a median
down the middle and an additional, fifth lane
from the four-lane highway between Moncton
and Shediac leading into Champlain Place
and Crystal Palace.
Land negotiations continue with property
owners along the street.
Councillor-at-Large Jean Gaudet challenged
council to be visionary when it comes
to sidewalk and crosswalk safety as well as to
the environment, pushing for a roundabout
rather than a traditional intersection at the
reconfigured street’s major traffic crossing as,
he said, they are far more safe and efficient in
moving traffic along and thus more environmentally
sound.
While the exact look of the new road won’t
be known for some time yet, it is clear that
the current mishmash of entrances and exits
into and out of the relatively short street’s
more than 100 businesses will be changed to
promote efficient movement of traffic.
The street surface has seen much better
days, with council recently opting not
to spend money paving it in the knowledge
it was about to be completely transformed,
something Maillet termed “responsible and
prudent.”
The third year of phase one will be mostly
cosmetic in nature, with lighting, a top coat
of pavement, trees and shrubbery installed.
When finished, the entire street will be
transformed, including the underground
infrastructure, which is also due for replacement.
Decorative lighting akin to what exists
now on Champlain Street is being considered
for Paul Street and the plans call for extending
Dieppe’s popular riverfront trail along
one side of the new street so that people can
walk, bicycle or even rollerblade their way to
the shopping district.
One side of the street will feature a more
traditional concrete sidewalk along its full
length.
Overhead wires would be buried to add to
the area’s aesthetic appeal.
Council’s resolution yesterday approves
only the first phase of the project.
A number of candidates in Monday’s
municipal election were in the public gallery
yesterday, some of whom thought the timing
of the announcement was politically suspect.
One asked to publicly address the meeting
but was turned down on a point of procedure:
where public council meetings in Dieppe
routinely entertain questions from the public,
the rules of order state that at special meetings,
such as yesterday’s, only topics on the
agenda can be dealt with, and there was
nothing on the agenda pertaining to taking
questions from the public.
That rule could be overruled, however,
with a motion from a council member to do
so, though only if it received unanimous
support, a point that proved moot since no
motion was forthcoming.
( Also, I remember reading something that all of the tenants in the strip mall next to the Sobeys are on month to month leases because the rumour is that the owners of the property intend to sell it so that the road can be straightened out. It also is supposed to include the Gas station as well in order to widen the road at that point )
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