The Société du Havre has tabled its plans for the western downtown waterfront, a document called Vision 2025. As predicted, they want to see the Bonaventure expressway moved, plus there's the usual trendy pony-wishing about tramways, but they also want to see a hydroelectric plant constructed offshore, and a convention centre built in the Peel basin. (The last report I saw about the Palais des congrès said it was very much under-used. I can't see any argument for needing another one, especially with the imminent changes in U.S. passport rules.)

The notion of moving the expressway probably owes something to urban critic Jane Jacobs, who died yesterday at 89. Her fights against highway construction in New York and Toronto did an immense amount of good for those cities; maybe we can learn from them.
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