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Well, everybody, today's the day! I hope everyone/most of you voted today. It's going to be an interesting night, does Coderre win or do we see Plante become the new mayor? One party has brought more foreign investment and economic prosperity, while the other wants to limit FDI, build a metro and have more social housing.
Results will be posted here along with a discussion after we see who prevails. I encourage everyone to participate, cheers!
. What are your reasons? Could you explain? maybe we are missing something?
Ok, I didn't agree with Coderre with everything, BUT under him and with the Quebec Liberals in power, we had a 1+2 punch for Montreal. So under him, we grew the most economically, he was pro-business, pro-foreign investment, etc... Plante, on the other hand, wants to implement a foreign buyers tax (15%)in a city where foreign buyers don't even make up for 5%, wants to increase taxes on big business, add 40% social units in condo projects, which will most likely make developers cancell projects. Her pink line, although nice, is going to cost at least $10B, not $5-$6B like she said, and just the study period is going to take 4 years. So on a progressive side, they're great and I agree with them, but on their economic side and pro-business side, they're clueless. So as of today I'm, I wouldn't say upset, but rather disappointed and hope she proves me wrong.
I'm trying to envision the stations shown between Mont-Royal and McGill. I think I saw Milton-Parc (McGill ghetto) mentioned somewhere. Not sure where the other would be. I guess somewhere near Saint-Laurent and des Pins. That would be useful.
That said, I think ending it at Place-des-Arts as shown here would be more economically viable than running it under Rene-Levesque and continuing to the west end. The west end portion is nice, but yeah, a metro under Rene-Levesque traversing downtown doesn't seem like it'd be worthwhile. Nice to have once there, obviously, but in terms of cost/benefit ...
I also wholeheartedly support what she said about bike lanes on Tout le monde en parle. Coderre said that Montreal *has* been expanding the bike network, and she countered that we need protected lanes, not just more lines painted on the ground. Absolutely. Coderre made a point that you can't go making bike lanes everywhere due to delivery trucks, etc, but there are more than enough streets to go around.
I hope a lot of her campaign promises come to fruition. Time will tell!
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