This year, city officials say over nine kilometers of Montreal streets will be pedestrianized across the city and 2,100 businesses will be accessible by foot.
Montreal mayor Valérie Plante says she wants to add more green space to the mountain by way of closing Camillien-Houde to traffic and replacing the asphalt with trees.
Efforts to make school zones safer took on renewed urgency last year when a seven-year-old girl, recently arrived from Ukraine, was killed in a hit-and-run on her way to class.
A 50-year-old man is in critical condition after being hit by a car, marking the second day in a row that a pedestrian has been struck on Montreal roads.
A slew of new traffic-calming measures comes after a seven-year-old girl was killed in a hit and run while walking to school in the Ville-Marie borough last year.