General objective:
Improve accessibility and mobility in the region to reconcile business and social life, by addressing local concerns and implementing innovative solutions.
Mandate for 2026 :
- Urban Logistics Project
- Representing the Business Community – North-South bike path
- Impact Report and Alternative Solutions: Overhaul of the STM bus network
- Pre-feasibility Study: Railway crossing – Extension of l'Esplanade
- Mobilization of the business community
Committee members:
- Carolyn Kelly Dorais
Zaraté + Lavigne Architectes - Alain Gagné
PCI automatisation industrielle - Eugénie Lévis
Matelas Sélection - Stéphane Peevers
Transport Actif Québec - Catherine Plouffe
STM - Pier-Luc St-Germain
Résident - Geneviève Dufour
SDC District Central - Hélène Veilleux
SDC District Central - Jonathan Villeneuve
Les Ateliers Belleville
Achievements:
- Léger & MOBA Surveys – Impact of the north-south bike path on businesses (2025)
- Alignment Analysis of planning documents – Urban logistics (2025)
- Update of the Urban Mobility Toolkit (2025)
- Analysis of the District Central PPU project and submission of recommendations (2024)
- Brief on the vision of sustainable mobility in the District Central (2024)
- Submission of a brief - Projet de Plan d'urbanisme et de mobilité 2050 de Montréal (2024)
- Exploratory walk - Sauvé sector (2024)
- Mobility and traffic study - Rue Meilleur (2024)
- Work on routes and signage (District Central Signature Action Plan) (2024)
- Launch - 1st shared parking offer, including pilot project on lot 50-150 de Louvain W. (2023)
- Development of the vision of sustainable mobility in the District Central (2023)
- Urban Mobility Toolbox launched on the DC website (2023)
- Recommendations - New bike path on rue Legendre and De l'Esplanade (2023)
- Recommendations - Three-year plan 2023-2025 of the Ahuntsic-
- Cartierville local transportation plan (2023)
- Organization of the Midi de la mobilité event (2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021)
- Recipient of the "Fédérateur" award at the "Prix Leaders de la mobilité durable des Centres de gestion des déplacements métropolitains". (2022)
- Pilot project - Indemnité kilométrique Vélo (mileage allowance for bicycles) (2022)
- Online campaign to raise employee awareness of sustainable modes of transport (2021-2022)
- Survey of District Central workers' travel habits (before, during and intentions following the lockdown) (2021)
- Recommendations - Overhaul of the STM's public transit service in Montreal (2021)
- Study of REM connection potential (2020)
- Development of an action plan (2020)
- Profile - Off-street parking study (2019-2020)
- Improved bus service (2019)
- Arrival of the first Bixi stations (2019)
- Recommendations - Local transportation plan for Ahuntsic-
- Cartierville 2020-2022 (2018-2019)
- Organization of the Vélo-fête event (2018 et 2019)
- Organization of Park(ing) Day events (2018 and 2019)
- Interactive cartography for the District Central website (2018)
- Survey on travel habits on the District Central SDC territory (2017)