Montreal: interim measures to secure the way Camillien-Houde

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Wednesday, 11 October 2017 20:16

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Wednesday, 11 October 2017 20:21

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MONTREAL | A week after the death of the cyclist Clement Ouimet, the administration Coderre announced Wednesday that interim measures aimed to secure the route Camillien-Houde road on mount Royal.

Last October 4, Clement Ouimet, a cyclist of the highest level, was struck fatally by a vehicle that made a U-turn in the illegal at the end of the wall track safety Camillien-Houde. Grievously wounded, the young man of 18 died in hospital, becoming the fourth cyclist to be killed in the metropolis during the last three months.

A working group must make recommendations to prevent such tragedies from happening again, but the mayor Coderre wanted to move without waiting for the report, so that the municipal election campaign is in full swing.

Thus, the City announced Wednesday that it will extend the low central over a distance of 30 metres, after the curve of the path Camillien-Houde. It will also add signs to remind the prohibition to perform turns in a U at this location as well as elsewhere on the mountain, and we will install a display of speed at the exit of the curve.

These different measures should be deployed by October 20, said the mayor Coderre, who also wants to move quickly to adopt a speed limitation on the mountain, 40 km/h, if he is re-elected on 5 November. The voie Camillien-Houde is actually part of the larger arteries of the central districts, which are subject to a possible reduction of the speed.

The surveillance camera of the curve of the path Camillien-Houde shall otherwise remain in place.

“The objective of these measures is threefold: to allay the speed in the curve where the accident was held last week, improve the field of vision, and the margin of manoeuvre of the cyclist at the end of the curve and to discourage any maneuver illegal between the two directions on the track,” said Denis Coderre, by issuing a press release.

“We count on the collaboration of all for the respect. It is a public safety issue,” added the mayor.

The observations of the teams of the Ville-Marie borough and the police will be identified in a document that will then be submitted to the working group, has been provided, saying that it will, among others, to ensure a “regular maintenance of the verge” of the path Camillien-Houde.