In 2024, Montrealers will once again have to navigate a landscape of cones, barriers, and detours. This year, the city's ambitious construction agenda includes significant projects ranging from transit expansions to major retail developments. These projects, while essential for the city's growth, continue to challenge daily commutes and raise questions about urban planning and efficiency.
Montreal's Ville-Marie borough is putting the brakes on car traffic in residential areas, closing some streets and making others one-way. The new measures will affect streets near the downtown core, around Berri-UQAM, and extend further east as part of a 2023 plan to improve mobility in certain neighbourhoods.
Living in Montreal is an experience of extremes: extreme cold and extreme heat, high levels of festival excitement and high levels of annoying stairs. Each Montreal resident will come to a point, though, when the pressures of city life begin to crush your spirit, and you wonder whether it's time to move on.
One of the oldest music stores in downtown Montreal, known for its iconic sign at the corner of Berri and Sainte-Catherine, will shut its doors for good this summer. Archambault announced the decision not to renew its lease on January 27, citing loss of business and deterioration of the surrounding area during the pandemic.
You may have noticed a lot of colourful STM signage up around the intersection of Berri and Sainte-Catherine Streets and ignored it. But if you're one of the many Montrealers who's used to entering the Berri-UQAM metro station via Sainte-Catherine Street you're going to have to replan your route. As of this week, the main entrance at the corner of Place Émilie-Gamelin will be closed until next spring.