I extracted the image of the render and increased the quality of it, feel free to examine it and use it for talking about specific projects as they happen in Brossard! It’ll be interesting to compare real projects and how closely they follow this
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Looks like a cities skylines city
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Cette semaine, les arrondissements de Longueuil vont faire quelques séances d’urbanisme pour les citoyens. Par exemple, la séance à Greenfield Park est planifiée le 9 octobre.
Notre arrondissement n’est pas loin de Station Panama et le zone du PPU Brossard, alors je vais parler aux employés de la ville pour apprendre leur perspectives et les considérations pour connectivité.
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I shared the idea of making a BRT along Taschereau that buses could share, until a tramway is made. The planners said that wasn’t an idea and they want a tram, but I was sharing how difficult it to get funding for public transit projects, so starting first with a BRT that could be converted to a tram line would greatly help make Taschereau become a more attractive transit corridor with developments around it.
Could you maybe pass on this message and ask if there is a plan for a BRT along Taschereau? Not sure if that’s the sort of urban planning session to bring it up
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Yeah, I can ask about that. I’m interested because the epicenter of activity is already shifting along the Taschereau axis from Longueuil to Panama, and with a new centreville and a larger REM network in the 5-year lookahead, I’m curious how the RTL network with overcome the sprawl and connect all these sectors to the area.
But for this meeting it’s going to be a room full of older folks upset about property taxes, begging for Pickleball courts and indoor swimming pools, and simultaneously fighting against density, so I’ll try to get a word in.
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Managed to get a couple minutes with the Longueuil team working on the Urbanism plan, and brought up the Brossard PPU and structuring transit along Taschereau.
They repeated what we know: Legault announced a Taschereau REM link which the CDPQi pulled out of, but the municipalities of Brossard/Longueuil don’t want rapid transit that hops over larger distances to key points, they want a structuring “people-mover” like a tram to increase pedestrian mobility along the axis.
I even brought up the increased traffic that will be coming with the MET airport starting operations, and they confirmed that people are looking at a structuring transport for getting people to/from the airport along accesses like Boule Rolland-Therrien (sp?).
Now the bad part: as we know, they mentioned that Brossard and Longueuil are stuck waiting for the new government agency to see any progress on these larger modes. There will be no progress until this agency begins kicking off projects, the CDPQ and ARTM seem to have washed their hands of this role in anticipation of the new agency.
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So it seems there’s no way to make a BRT themselves, the cities, it HAS to be the new agency that authorizes it? How has Laval made BRTs without the ARTM then? Just curious how it all works out
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No idea, but anyone interested in how Longueuil is matching other cities like Toronto, Vancouver, etc, in rezoning, I recommend you look at the urbanism plan.
One fun fact: Greenfield Park, despite being right beside the planned, dense, Brossard Centre-Ville, has been projected for “soft” densification, unlike other areas of Longueuil where zoning will change more drastically to incentivize densification.
So you’ll have towers at Panama, apartments and condos surrounding that, and then north along the river, a small sea of single-family homes, and then more apartments between Lemoyne and Metro Longueuil, which is slated for strong densification, like Brossard plans around Panama.
Peaks and valleys 
and hopefully at least a couple buses to carry us around.
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To me, that seems like cope coming from the city. If they really wanted to increase pedestrian mobility on Taschereau today, they could ask the RTL to double the frequency of the 77 and 54, ask the MTQ for signal priority at major junctions, and add asphalt bike lanes in the grass boulevards along the sidewalk. But instead, it’s easier to throw up your hands and wait for the MIQ to propose a billion dollar project to be completed in 2040.
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Oh, 100%. The copium is flowing at every Hotel de Ville in Quebec with the news of this new agency. They’ve been given the perfect scapegoat to do nothing for 2-3 years.
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Je ne sais pas c’est quoi que les urbanistes de Longueuil ont en tête mais jai de la difficulté à comprendre comment on va transformer le boulevard Taschereau en un corridor accueillant pour les piétons. Je vois mal comment le MTQ accepterait de diminuer la capacité routière de cet artère d’une manière significative qui ferait en sorte que marcher serait un mode de déplacement privilégié.
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To expand on that last point: how are there still not bike lanes along Taschereau. The grass boulevard is the widest i’ve ever seen, wide enough for a MUP on both sides, or a REV that would make Valerie Plante jealous. Instead, people get the privilege of either biking in a bus lane or biking on the sidewalk.
The same is true through the new centre-ville de brossard.
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Could the PPU released by the city be added to the header? @Michael_A @ScarletCoral
https://www.brossard.ca/in/rest/public/Attachment/attach_cmsUpload_0805fb2a-b536-4f8b-acfe-8579f49de1a8
Additionally these images could be added:
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À la séance du conseil, la conseillère municipale indépendante Xixi Li a voté contre la planification stratégique, tout comme l’élu Claudio Benedetti. Elle a reproché que tous deux n’aient pas été consultés pour contribuer à l’élaboration de la vision.
Only saw this message now, and lol
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I don’t want to spam this PPU thread, because I know people are watching it eagerly for updates, but there are fun developments happening along Taschereau right at the northern border of the new “Brossard Centre-Ville” zone, and I am posting about them in the Boulevard Taschereau thread.
Basically: Greenfield Park & Saint-Hubert are rezoning almost all of their Taschereau-adjacent land from commerical to mixed with a maximum of 10 storeys in some places and no height limit in other places.
Improving density and bike infrastructure (also in the works) along this corridor is (in my opinion) critical to sell a structuring transit project, and the neighbouring boroughs of Longueuil actually seem to be working in tandem with Brossard’s own efforts to rezone for the Centre-Ville!
Ok, disappearing now!
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