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Valérie Plante transformed Montreal (lemmy.world)
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Valerie Plante is leaving politics.

She was an amazing mayor.

She has gotten a lot of blame for things beyond her control. Canada has one of the highest immigration rate on the planet. Visible homelessness has increased in every single province, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. That had nothing to do with her. Yet some people still blame her for the housing crisis 🤦

Most Canadian mayors are managers. They just manage stuff. They have no vision for the future. That's why many Canadian cities are a horrible disaster.

Valerie Plante is one of the few mayors who is actually a transformative figure.

https://thewalrus.ca/montreal-kicked-cars-to-the-curb-and-thrived/

She widened sidewalks.

She created the single-largest bike lane network in North America.

She created car-free streets every summer

Her last decision was to ban cars from the Mount-Royal Park

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-montreal-to-expand-mount-royal-park-ban-cars-from-part-of-main-access/

Montreal elections are coming very soon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Montreal_municipal_election

Let's hope whoever replaces her continues on this path.

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[–] hardtrip@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As a Montrealer, just letting people the next election is not looking good.

The current opposition party Ensemble Montreal wants to undo her work, increase the amount of AirBnb’s, and is made up of incredibly Zionist, right wing, anti vax, etc leaders. They are currently polling really good, even if they are commuting many violations with their sign placements.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Tbf they're only polling like 20%, the large amount of undecided makes it like that, I suspect much of the undecided vote will go to projet montreal

[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I keep hearing that about Ensemble Montreal, but never saw any reporting on it. You got sources to share?

Interested in Transition Montreal actually, but haven't done my due diligence yet on any of the parties.

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

I agree - thank you for posting this, OP.

And I'm very impressed with Montrealers for making such great use of their bicycles. I imagine there are long-term health benefits that will result from this.

I hope her work inspires other mayors.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

American here. What are all the circular things behind her?

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those are the focusing lenses for the space laser, which was powered down for the picture.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

I hate you.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like she is standing in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_des_Arts. So that is likely some kind of street art.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you, was driving me crazy...

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Bench / street art.