During the week of the Presidents Cup, the City of Montreal and the organizers of the event plan to set up a filtration system for the citizens of L’Île-Bizard, we learned Newspaper.
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To leave the island and return home, the approximately 18,800 residents would have to present a sticker or QR code at road checkpoints erected specifically to manage traffic during the tournament.
“It’s unthinkable,” thunders the borough mayor of L’Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève, Doug Hurley.
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“Have they thought about the problems this will cause,” he then asked in an interview with The newspaper near the new bridge construction site. “It will create more traffic jams and have a negative impact on businesses.”
“Who will create the sticker, take care of its distribution and manage the problems,” he also asks about the management of this game plan. “We cannot prevent access to a citizen who has forgotten his sticker or his code.”
“And they don’t think about the businesses, the delivery and distribution network, the commercial customers coming from outside the island,” also adds Mayor Hurley.
Deficient infrastructure
Nelligan MP Monsef Derraji supports Mayor Hurley’s comments.
“There is real concern among the citizens of the island who fear being prisoners,” says the one who is spokesperson for the official opposition in the National Assembly on infrastructure as well as transport and mobility. sustainable. There is no predictability for our citizens.
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“This golf tournament is a great showcase and we want sporting events, but do we have a reception structure and are the authorities doing everything to make life easier for all parties,” he asks. responding in the negative.
Everything in his power
Mayor Hurley wants the City and the PGA Tour organizers to go back to the drawing board to find other solutions than the filtration system.
For his part, he promises to do everything so that the work is stopped from September 24 to 29. “The three lanes of the bridge must be freed and free of work,” he says, promising to make it his hobby horse for the next four months. “It’s impossible to accommodate so many people with construction sites in operation.”
For its part, the City of Montreal does not plan, for the moment, to stop work on the new bridge site during the tournament, says the City’s administrative spokesperson, Philippe Sabourin.
