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Vol. 26, No. 50
26 décembre / December 26
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Les élèves chantent Noël
Sous la direction de leur professeure de musique, Lucie Dostie, les élèves de cinquième et de sixième année de l’école Rapides Deschênes chantent Noël lors de leur concert du 19 décembre aux Galeries Aylmer. (C.B.) Photo : Serge Parent
Les permis de construction explosent à Gatineau en 2007
Julie Murray
En 2007, les revenus de Gatineau générés par l’émission de permis de construction ont explosé, passant de 373,5 millions$ pour les neuf premiers mois de 2006 à 473,3 millions$ pour la même période en 2007, soit une augmentation de 26,7%. À Ottawa, les revenus tirés des permis de construction ont augmenté de seulement 14,2%, passant de 1,2 milliards$ en 2006 à 1,4 milliards$ en 2007.
Au cours du mois de septembre, les municipalités canadiennes ont tiré 6,2 milliards$ de l’émission de permis de construction (résidentielle et non résidentielle), représentant 1,7% que les 6,3 milliards$ du mois d’août et ce, malgré une augmentation de permis pour le résidentiel. En septembre, le revenu tiré des permis résidentiels est passé à 4 milliards$, soit une augmentation de 2,6%.
(Trad.: C.B.)
STO to study rapid transit for west
No Viabus for Aylmer
Julie Murray
Talk by Councillor Alain Riel of extending the Rapibus into Aylmer, and comments by Councillor Frank Thérien about installing a train or bus from Aylmer to Hull on the old train line, provoked fears of reviving plans for the Viabus, an express bus from Hull to Aylmer running from the Holiday Inn near Montcalm Street, along the railroad tracks, then on Boulevard Taché and Aylmer Road. The idea died in 1998 after adamant opposition by residents of Hull who did not want heavy bus traffic near their homes.
“If this is the case, get ready for the sword to be raised in my ward like you haven’t seen since the Dasken affair,” Val Tétrault Councillor Alain Pilon says, referring to the successful fight by residents to have a high-rise building, constructed without proper zoning, demolished. He adds to The Bulletin, “If they want to put an express line right in the heart of Val-Tétrault, they’re gonna have a hell of a fight.”
Viabus is dead
However STO Chair Louise Poirier says, “The Viabus is dead. We don’t want to use the railroad tracks.” She explains that in 2008, a $50,000 study will be conducted to consider whether, over the next ten to fifteen years, there will be a need to have a rapid system to Aylmer. “We will be considering whether we need do something better, to build another system to connect Aylmer to the rest of the city and to Ottawa. If the answer is yes, then in 2009, we will do a feasibility study.”
She notes that the Quebec Transport Ministry will help pay part of the $3.4 million cost of such a feasibility study. “If we do this second study, the experts will be looking at the possibility of a reserved lane on Boulevard des Allumettières, or Lucerne Boulevard, or Aylmer Road.”
She predicts that any rapid transit from Aylmer will likely not be a train, which is five times more costly than a bus system. Ms Poirier told The Bulletin, “Cost/benefit studies were done in the Gatineau sector and it was determined that a train was too costly because the population isn’t dense enough. Will it be different in Aylmer? We’ll have to see. A train will be paid by the province, so if Quebec says it’s too expensive, we won’t have a train.”
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