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Back in June, they were all for it.
Now, all but one are against it.
The controversial east-west cycling path along Terrebonne St. will come to an expedient end after the Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough council voted 5-1 Tuesday to cancel it.
Easy come, easy go.
Borough mayor Sue Montgomery was the lone holdout in deciding to end the pilot project early, a sign of her political isolation since her falling out with Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante and her old party last winter. The three Projet Montréal councillors, once Montgomery’s allies, joined forces with opposition councillors Marvin Rotrand and Lionel Perez to kill the cycling lane that has roiled N.D.G. residents all summer long.
Politics certainly makes strange bedfellows. Projet councillors Christian Arseneault, Peter McQueen and Magda Popeanu distanced themselves from Montgomery, rather than stand firm on the kind of active transportation infrastructure that is the bread and butter of their party’s platform. But there’s an election looming next year and every representative must be keenly aware of the public mood in a borough where the political scene is already fractured, complicated and dysfunctional.
