{"id":956078,"date":"2026-11-03T00:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956078\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T00:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:04:12","slug":"montreal-wests-main-artery-needs-to-be-a-more-lively-street-and-a-safer-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956078\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal West&#8217;s main artery needs to be &#8216;a more lively street&#8217; \u2014 and a safer street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With infrastructure to replace, traffic and safety concerns to address, and a need to attract new businesses, the revitalization of Westminster Ave. is top of mind in Montreal West. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While talks of improvements to the main artery have spanned years, Mayor Jonathan Cha, who has a background in urban planning and was elected last year, said he\u2019s committed to the project and hopes to have a clear vision for it in 2026-27. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a nice commercial street, but it\u2019s not up to date in terms of quality of design, quality of the experience, diversity of merchants,\u201d Cha said in an interview Thursday. \u201cPeople are expecting a more lively street, a more beautiful street \u2014 maybe a stronger identity.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With infrastructure to replace, traffic and safety concerns to address, and a need to attract new businesses, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-956078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}