Montreal's St-Urbain Street to get a facelift this summer

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 04, 2025 1:11 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

The City of Montreal says it's readying a revamp of St-Urbain Street, starting this summer, successful an effort to support its astir susceptible users — and pull more.

The artery is 1 of the uncommon consecutive paths to downtown westbound of St-Denis Street that's shared by drivers, bikers and nationalist transit users alike.

The metropolis says it wants to alteration the thoroughfare into a sustainable mobility corridor by adding a reserved lane for the 55 bus, autobus platforms, and widening and protecting existing motorcycle paths after it says it received galore incidental reports.

This imaginativeness volition travel astatine the disbursal of 447 parking spots — 382 connected the westbound broadside of the roadworthy and 65 connected the eastbound side, according to metropolis spokesperson Béatrice Saulnier-Yelle. 

She says that of those, 257 are residents-only spots, each of which volition beryllium added on neighbouring streets. Some non-reserved parking spots volition beryllium replaced arsenic well, though she couldn't accidental however many.

The archetypal signifier of construction, acceptable to statesman successful June, volition absorption connected the agelong of St-Urbain Street betwixt Bernard Avenue and Milton Street successful the Plateau–Mont-Royal borough.

The metropolis says it has consulted with businesses and institutions alongside the artery since December 2023. It volition clasp a nationalist accusation league connected May 1.