Daily rates are thus reduced from $5 to $2 for adults aged 18 to 54 and a reduced rate is introduced for people aged 55 and over. The City is an age-friendly municipality. So, for the day, we added a rate for seniors
explains the director general of the Saint-Quentin island park, Josée-Anne Labrousse, in an interview on the program Always in the morning.
Access for children 12 and under is free and for teenagers it will cost $1.25.
Parking increases to $7 per day to encourage alternative modes of travel to the solo car and vignettes will be offered between $35 and $55 for the season.
Families penalized
When we analyze all the scenarios, I consider that there is a group that finds itself penalized, then it is families with young children
declared the councilor for the district of Rivières Pascale Albernhe-Lahaie, before voting against the fee schedule, as did her colleague Pierre-Luc Fortin of the district of Estacades.
The fares have been redesigned to try to reduce the convergence of automobiles towards Île Saint-Quentin and encourage active transportation, such as walking and cycling. Nothing that doesn’t favor the single parent visiting the park.
When you have children and you want to do an activity, it’s a bit like moving house. We bring lunch, towels, chairs, spare linens…it’s a bit penalizing for them, the cost of parking
supports the adviser, who is the spokesperson for the citizens she met to support her position.
Today, the family is transformed. You can be a single-parent family, you can be a parent on maternity or paternity leave who wants to come and take a walk on Île Saint-Quentin. In my opinion, I find it a little unrealistic to ask these families to come by means other than the car
she adds.
Despite the point raised by Pascale Albernhe-Lahaie, the general manager of Île Saint-Quentin says she completely
in accordance with the new entry costs.
“When we talk about penalizing… Listen, a person who comes for the day, therefore, an adult with children under 12, an adult and a car, we are going to talk about $9 instead of $5”, holds to be specified Josée-Anne Labrousse.
Reduced rate for green cars
The discount granted to electric cars for parking on Île Saint-Quentin is not unanimously approved by the municipal council. It will now cost $10 less to get a summer parking sticker for green license plates.
I think people who have electric cars are a bit better off as well. Through all this reflection, I tell myself that if there was a discount to be given in relation to a sticker, well, it would be to give it to families
proposes Pascale Albernhe-Lahaie.
In the summer of 2021, there was a lot of traffic on Île Saint-Quentin when the heat wave arrived.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Marc-Antoine Belanger
One of the objectives pursued in the overhaul of the tariffs was the conservation of places by promoting access to the island by other means of transport. An electric or gasoline-powered car will come to occupy a parking space
she continues.
A point of view shared by Pierre-Luc Fortin. We must find alternatives to the solo car. An electric solo car or a gas solo car, it’s a car that takes up space
. According to him, the discount will not have the desired effect of reducing the number of cars on the island.
In addition, the director general of the Saint-Quentin island park mentions that other projects are in the pipeline to reduce the influx of vehicles on the site and make the island even more accessible to residents of Trois-Rivières. There is a shuttle project that is being prepared so that people can come by shuttle
says Josée-Anne Labrousse.
Anyway, we will have to wait until the end of the summer season to see if the new rates will have been able to attract a greater number of visitors to enjoy the outdoors and the beach under the sun of Saint-Quentin Island. .
Reference-ici.radio-canada.ca