MoWest forced to change street fix plans

By Joel Goldenberg The Suburban An unhappy Montreal West has been forced to change the order of the streets it wants to fix as part of its long-term infrastructure program, because the Programme d?Infrastructure de Québec (PIQ) program which provides funding has different priorities. ?If we knew we had to do a block, and we know two years from now we had to do the next or a contiguous block, we were trying to group them together so we would only inconvenience residents one time,? Mayor Beny Masella told The Suburban. ?The government says no ? if in the original priority, the next street doesn?t come up until two years later, they don?t want to know that it?s more convenient to do it now. They say, ?you have to do the one that?s the worst, and then the next worse.? ?They?re looking at [it on the basis] of sewers, not at the road or potholes.?

MoWest changes focus of safety committee

By Joel Goldenberg The Suburban Montreal West has changed the name and focus of its traffic and safety committee to the public safety and awareness committee, councillor Dino Mazzone told the February town council meeting. Mazzone said the now-former traffic and safety committee recently held its last meeting, during which he thanked its members. ?I invited them to express their interest should they want to serve on [the newly named committee],? he said. ?I would like to reiterate to the residents that those who would like to be part of the committee to submit their names and the reasons why you?d like to participate. Masella explained during the meeting that ?we?ve been going back and forth with the minister of municipal affairs, and have had to fine tune our projects, add streets and take away streets, so that they?re in a position where they are comfortable even looking at our project. ?Until now, they weren?t even comfortable looking at our project because of the streets we had chosen. They?re being very picky about which streets they?ll even look at. I think we?re at a point where we almost have a project that they?re ready to even look at and then they?ll decide whether or not they?ll give us money. Unfortunately, until they decide whether they?re giving us any money, we?re not going to know whether we?re going forward. It?s already the middle of February and now is the time to start planning this, so we?re coming up to a rush to get a decision from them.? Councillor Joseph McKenzie read a resolution in which the original repair list that included the streets Campbell, Brock North, Radcliffe, Banstead, Ballantyne and Ainslie be replaced with Banstead, Radcliffe, Campbell, Wolseley South, Strathearn, Fenwick, Sheraton, Roxton, Wolseley North, Percival and Ainslie. ? We hope to make that group a little bit bigger, with varied interests and different backgrounds and hopefully bring a better discussion to the table.? Mazzone said the goal is to ?recognize that the committee is not necessarily there simply to discuss the minutiae of traffic patterns and issue. We would like to have a more active agenda where we talk about public safety issues. ?To that end, we are trying to engage various resources that are available to the town, one of which will be [Station 9 police] and, through the efforts of Constable Marie-Christine Nobert, will be joining myself and public security director Pat Mann on special projects.

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