As the Plante administration's contentious pilot project aimed at banning through traffic on Mount Royal is set to come to and end this week, the city has released a study on how dangerous the mountain pass is.
The city has counted no less than 137 road accidents on the mountain between 2013 and 2017, causing 34 injuries and one death — that of teen cyclist Clément Ouimet in October 2017, who was killed when a trucker made an illegal U-turn on Camillien-Houde Way.
The city points out that figure could be a lot higher, considering that many collisions aren't reported because they cause neither physical or material damage.
Camillien-House Way, incidentally, is where most of the crashes, 39 of them, have been reported. 22 others were reported on Remembrance Rd., and 24 others at the intersection of Remembrance and Camillien-Houde.
30 of them were reported in parking lots.
Illegal manoeuvres, particularly U-turns, are frequently cited as the cause for such collisions. The city notes there have been at least three other collisions involving cyclists at the same spot where Ouimet died.
Mount Royal will reopen to through traffic on Thursday, after the summer-long pilot project. Public consultations are set to resume on Nov. 8, when the Plante administration is expected to present its assessment of how well the project worked.
Members of the public have until Nov. 22 to register to have their voices heard, which they will be until Nov. 28.
A final report is expected sometime this coming winter.