Local shopping street in the city of Montréal, It’s the beginning of the summer here, and more and more streets are being closed to cars every summer (although they’re reopened during the cold Canadian winters), the difference in the amount of people there now vs last week when it was still open to cars is absurd.

Even more people! Lil stand

Since It’s the beginning of the summer there was a marching band to celebrate, which was nice.

Businesses set up stands where they sold stuff, offered free samples and stuff like that, and there was also seating and games set out for kids, like a bouncy castle, some (mini) mini-golf courses and a mini skate park.

Just closing the street to cars made the space much nicer, and there were way more people there than when the street was open to cars.

  • @argh_another_username@lemmy.caEnglish
    16•9 days ago

    Without checking thoroughly, I think I lived near this street. It was really nice to walk there in the summer. Greater Montreal has several streets that close for cars in the summer. In French it’s called “piétonnisation”. But even here, there is resistance from stores. This year the City tried to make the Ste Catherine st. a big walkable street. It’s already like this in the gay village. They wanted to do also in downtown near Eaton Center where some streets already close for big events, like the F1. It didn’t work out. In the south shore, the St Charles st is also closed for cars.

    • @Blisterexe@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      7•9 days ago

      Ouais, c’est dommage qu’il y ait encore beaucoup de gens contre ce genre de projet, par contre, je suis heureux qu’il y ait quand même de plus en plus de routes qui sont bloquées aux voitures chaque année !