Number of passes this month
9520
October 2024 (to date)
Number of passes
November 20, 2024
565
Number of passes in 2023
102,730
How is this data collected?
THE PROBLEM
Intense trucking with all the resulting harm to the mental and physical health of residents of Chemin de la Butte-aux-Renards, Varennes, Quebec.
With an annual heavy trucking volume well over 100,000 per year and a majority of vehicle operators not respecting the speed limit of 50 km/h, where is the police presence?
2024 (Up until May 15th)
Chemin du Petit-Bois :
156
statements of offense issued
Chemin de la Butte-aux-Renards :
2
statements of offense issued
2023
Chemin du Petit-Bois :
1 413
statements of offense issued
Chemin de la Butte-aux-Renards :
17
statements of offense issued
2022
Chemin du Petit-Bois :
1 465
statements of offense issued
Chemin de la Butte-aux-Renards :
18
statements of offense issued
Data source:
Régie intermunicipale de police Richelieu Saint-Laurent
Régie intermunicipale de police Richelieu Saint-Laurent
Here is a video showing blatant examples of vehicles exceeding the speed limit every day on Chemin de la Butte-aux-Renards:
“The defendant, the City of Varennes argues that the long-term solution to the dispute lies in opening a bypass road for chemin de la Butte-aux-Renards. This solution is well-founded. It goes without saying that if such a project comes to fruition, the interim injunction will no longer have its reason for being.”
– THE HONORABLE NICOLE DUVAL HESLER, J.C.Q., ROBERT M. MAINVILLE, J.C.A., MARIE-JOSÉE HOGUE, J.C.A.
“There is no doubt that an alternate route is the only realistic solution that allows the plaintiffs to be able to reasonably coexist with their neighbors CRH and BauVal while allowing them to continue operating their businesses.”
– THE HONORABLE MICHEL A. PINSONNAULT, J.C.S.
Reference (french only): COUR SUPÉRIEURE Dossier 500-17-099497-177 – 30 mai 2022 – Page 19 [64]
THE SOLUTION
A bypass via Montée de la Baronnie, a road that the municipality has already decreed as a trucking route – The solution that would keep all trucks away from inhabited areas.
According to the CPTAQ (COMMISSION DE PROTECTION DU TERRITOIRE AGRICOLE DU QUÉBEC) :
Reference (french only): CPTAQ Dossier 423112 – Décision – 23 août 2022 – Page 19 [106]
THE PROBLEM
Intense trucking with all the resulting harm to the mental and physical health of residents of Chemin de la Butte-aux-Renards, Varennes, Quebec.
THE SOLUTION
A bypass via Montée de la Baronnie, a road that the municipality has already decreed as a trucking route – The solution that would keep all trucks away from inhabited areas.
According to the CPTAQ (COMMISSION DE PROTECTION DU TERRITOIRE AGRICOLE DU QUÉBEC):
Reference (french only): CPTAQ Dossier 423112 – Décision – 23 août 2022 – Page 19 [106]
CPTAQ:
(translated from original french)
“The route 3 option remains a reasoned and sustainable alternative, as Montée de la Baronnie already exists, and widening this route is possible. Moreover, this update may not require authorization from the Commission, in accordance with Article 6 (1) of the Regulation implementing the Law on the Protection of Territory and Agricultural Activities and Article 2 and following of the Regulation on the Authorization of Alienation or Use of a lot without the Authorization of the Agricultural Land Protection Commission. The Commission understands that the route 3 option entails certain inconveniences and that the cost assessment is higher than the route 1 option, but it may be the route that generates the least impact on the protection of the territory and agricultural activities. Even though it requires the development of a new small section, it can be arranged along the tree line on the CRH property, while preserving the maple grove and cultivated lands.”
– COMMISSION DE PROTECTION DU TERRITOIRE AGRICOLE DU QUÉBEC (CPTAQ)
Reference (french only): CPTAQ Dossier 423112 – Décision – 23 août 2022 – Page 19 [106]
Without resolving the issue or continuing the search for a solution, the municipal council of the City of Varennes has decided not to appeal the decision of the CPTAQ to the Administrative Tribunal of Quebec, and have abandoned the residents of Chemin Butte-aux-Renards.
Martin Damphousse and the municipal council (Brigitte Collin, Carine Durocher, Benoit Duval, Guillaume Fortier, Geneviève Labrecque, Gaétan Marcil, Natalie Parent, and Marc-André Savaria) refuse to act in the best interest of residents by building a bypass road, the only solution to this major trucking problem.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
The residents of Chemin de la Butte-aux-Renards demand a quality of life, equal to that of the other citizens of Varennes, Quebec.
Given the proximity of residences to chemin de la Butte-aux-Renards, no other mitigation measure besides a bypass road is feasible in this situation.
We demand CONCRETE ACTIONS from these companies (the multinational company CRH / Demix and the BauVal / Roxboro / Bricon Group), city representatives, and our leaders who are the only ones PROFITING from the situation at the expense of the citizens of chemin de la Butte-aux-Renards.