The city center will have a "decline" |The Montreal Journal

Inside Montreal, journalist Louis-Philippe Messier moves mainly in the race, his office in his backpack, on the lookout for subjects and fascinating people.He speaks to everyone and is interested in all circles in this urban chronicle.

I walk in the city center, with the new director general of the Commercial Development Company Montreal Center-Ville, Glenn Castanheira, when he takes over an orange cone abandoned on the sidewalk.He wears this "orphan" for almost 100 meters to a more appropriate place.

"We cannot even know which site this cone comes so much there is," deplores the 35 -year -old man who arrived according to last winter.

If I walk there with m.Castanheira, it is to talk about this electoral issue that is downtown Montreal.

Everywhere, a din of rugging pitch hammers forces us to shout to understand ourselves.There is work almost on every street corner, which annoys traders and citizens.

The Montreal Transport Company (STM) has dug trenches worthy of the Great War over the McGill station.The deposit box puts McGill avenue above to build its Metropolitan Express Network Station (REM).The city completely redoes rue Sainte-Catherine.There are also dozens of major private projects.

Against the anarchy of the cones, the new director has an idea that he intends to establish from the next spring: to create an "declined" position to rage the city center on the lookout for the alienated cones of their sites or redundant.

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"Décaleux" is a funny word that m.Castanheira says he heard in the midnight series in the evening, but to which he now wants to give reality.

"Putting order in the clutter of the cones will be the mission of the decluine, he will advise the city so that the blue passes have it and he will ensure follow-up," he explains, designating several other coneswho seem to drag here and there.

Wouldn't it be up to the city to use "decayes"?To this question, M.Castanheira increases their shoulders, smiling.

"It may be up to her to act, but, if she does nothing, it becomes our responsibility," he philosopher.

Good habits

To candidates for the town hall of Montreal, M.Castanheira requests two things related to the experience of those circulating in the great work festival: a rigorous policy of building construction (inspired by Toronto) and the adoption of a vacuum permit (inspired by Chicago)For speculators who let their disused buildings rot while waiting to sell them.

Good and bad examples

In front of the former Montreal Athletic Association turning into a building in Condos, a covered gateway with a safety mirror at its end gives a good example of civility to other sites.

"In Toronto, this kind of gateway is compulsory to preserve the pedestrian from the weather of construction.»»

The old bar of super sex dancers and its surroundings are shabby and sadly unoccupied.Pigeons defecate on the facades with shattered tiles.

"In Chicago, an owner has six months to get a vacation permit which costs him more and more so long and his premises remain vacant.»»

In the coming days, Montreal Center-Ville will publish all of its requests to candidates for the town hall.Will the commercial heart of the metropolis be more presentable next year?