Avenue Verte at four

It might well be that the days of cheap oil are behind us, but this grim reality doesn’t appear to have had much affect on the number of cars rolling in to the downtown core every day.

As City Hall sits down to re-evaluate Montreal’s urban transit plan over the next 18 months, citizens’ group le collectif Mont-Royal Avenue Verte is organizing hard to influence city planners to think green when it comes to urban traffic control. To this end, they’ve organized a march along rue Mont-Royal, leaving Saturday, June 17, at 2 p.m., from the Mont-Royal metro station.

“It’s basically the four-year anniversary of our collective,” says spokesperson Owen Rose, “and here we are watching the Kyoto Accord being torn apart in Ottawa, traffic congestion issues are worse than they’ve ever been, yet at the same time we’re seeing environmental awareness increasing to levels we’ve never seen before. So this march is to let [the authorities] know we’re still here, that our ideas are more valid than they’ve ever been, and that citizens are increasingly concerned with these important environmental issues.”

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