Local shopping street in the city of Montréal, It’s the beginning of the summer here, and more and more streets are being closed to cars every summer (although they’re reopened during the cold Canadian winters), the difference in the amount of people there now vs last week when it was still open to cars is absurd.

Even more people! Lil stand

Since It’s the beginning of the summer there was a marching band to celebrate, which was nice.

Businesses set up stands where they sold stuff, offered free samples and stuff like that, and there was also seating and games set out for kids, like a bouncy castle, some (mini) mini-golf courses and a mini skate park.

Just closing the street to cars made the space much nicer, and there were way more people there than when the street was open to cars.

  • @Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7•6 hours ago

    In my city we finally decided to install a tram line over a long avenue. Do you know that “classic” 4 lanes avenue where one lane on each side is practically reserved for assholes to “temporarily park” with hazard lights blinking?

    So it becomes from 4 2 lanes to 2 lanes + tram. Win, right? I read an article about a sports goods store where the owner says “we decided to close shop now (when the tram construction isn’t even started) because next year without the space for customers to park (there isn’t now) how we could we continue business?”