Cutting down on through traffic from trucks and greening the area are among the motivations for a project to extend Assomption Blvd. towards Notre-Dame Ste. East in the Hochelaga Maisonneuve district.
Protesters gathered in the Montreal neighbourhood Saturday to voice their opposition to a construction project that may see Assomption Boulevard extended into a roadway that runs through a forest known as Boisé Steinberg.
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Quebec's Environment Ministry is allowing a controversial container hub in Montreal's Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood to go ahead with the first phase of its project, but the company behind it will have to operate under a number of conditions.