Public body: Arrondissement de Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Division du greffe Filed: September 11, 2026 (acknowledged September 14) Answered: October 9, 2026, by the secrétaire d’arrondissement Released: 508 pages in three bundles, plus statutory extracts
In September 2026 the borough had commissioned an engineering study of rue de Terrebonne from Les Services EXP inc. The request asked for the records showing (A) who initiated the study and why; (B) how it was procured and what it cost; (C) what it was instructed to examine and what data it used; (D) what it delivered and when; and (E) internal communications about it. The full text is in raw/request_2026-09-11.pdf.
| File | Pages | Content |
|---|---|---|
raw/response_2026-10-09.pdf |
8 | The borough’s item-by-item answers, with the grounds relied on for each refusal |
raw/01_emails_mandate_counts.pdf |
167 | Email chains (June–September 2026); the service request to EXP; EXP’s offer of services; the purchase order; the kick-off meeting form; the borough’s count-analysis presentation (February 2025) and its 2025 update; daily totals from the Terrebonne/Kensington loop counter, July 26, 2025 – August 31, 2026; Miovision intersection count tables, July 2024 – September 2025 |
raw/02_framework_agreement_tender.pdf |
341 | Public tender 59-25-ET-01 for the 2025–2027 engineering framework agreements; contract-management by-law; decision file 1255652003 and selection-committee results; WSP’s bid for contract no. 1. Nothing specific to Terrebonne |
raw/03_resolution_CA25-170126.pdf |
2 | Council resolution of June 9, 2025 awarding the framework agreements to WSP (contract 1, $1.60 M) and EXP (contract 2, $1.70 M) |
raw/act_extracts/ |
— | Sections 9, 23–24, 37, 39 and 53–59 of the Act and the notice of recourse, as supplied with the response |
| Pages | Content |
|---|---|
| 1–2 | August 13, 2026: the borough mayor’s chief of staff to the director of urban planning, cc. borough director and both elected officials — the mayor wants a formal external study; mandate: a bidirectional lane on one side (Loyola to Côte-Saint-Luc) “qui respecte les normes minimales prévues par la loi” and return of parking on one side; forwarded to the engineering division August 13–14 |
| 5–8 | June 10, 2026: borough engineering division to the City’s street-design division (SUM) — elected officials wish to restore the parking lane; two cross-sections drawn; borough has already issued an internal technical opinion; an external one is wanted. June 12 and 17: SUM replies (analysis withheld). June 22: borough asks the fire department (SIM) for an opinion, summarizing SUM’s conclusion. July 13: SIM reply (body redacted) |
| 3–4 | August 20, 2026: service request to EXP, mandate 59-26-ET-01_002 |
| 9–13 | August 25, 2026: EXP offer of services ($14,755; final note due October 2) |
| 15–17 | August 26, 2026: purchase order 1796945 ($17,706 with contingency) |
| 19–22 | August 18–28, 2026: emails on the mandate, work plan, inputs and EXP’s first interim analysis |
| 23–26 | September 3 kick-off form; September 10 emails on the deadline set by the October 5 council date |
| 27–49 | “Suivi de projet – Analyse des comptages – Projet cyclable Terrebonne”, February 2025 |
| 51–73 | Same presentation, “MAJ 2025” update with January and June 2025 counts |
| 74–81 | Loop counter daily totals (bicycles, motor vehicles), July 26, 2025 – August 31, 2026 |
| 82–164 | Miovision 15-minute count tables by class: Grand, Cavendish, Walkley, Royal; the January 29, 2025 counts are at pp. 82–88 (Grand) and 152–158 (Cavendish) |
| 167 | September 17, 2026: transmittal of the preliminary note (watermarked “brouillon”) |
The borough reports no documents for A2 (external funding), C3 (follow-up meetings), E2 (communication plans) and E3 (design or implementation documents dated before receipt of the final report).
A review of the refusals may be applied for at the Commission d’accès à l’information within 30 days of the decision (s. 135), i.e. by November 8, 2026.
With page references to bundle 01:
The counts cited at council rest on the weakest data in the file and understate winter use; the continuous counter data in the same file show average winter usage at least five times higher than the cited figure, and were disregarded in the councillor’s announcement. The councillor told the meeting that “we have counters everywhere, we have more counters than before. So we know exactly how many people use it, when and how” and that “we go from 700 during the good months to 8 … So that’s 4 cyclists, right? Including me.” The “8” (Terrebonne axis only, p. 62) and the “12” (all approaches, p. 61), the latter cited in answer to a question from the floor, come from the 2025 presentation: bicycles at Cavendish and Grand during the two peak periods of January 29, 2025 (tables at pp. 85 and 155), a day under an Environment Canada winter weather advisory on which the same camera at Grand recorded cars on the Terrebonne approaches down 23%, pedestrians down 26% and bicycles down 95% from the November 20, 2024 count (pp. 82–88, 131–137; see derived/miovision_counts_by_mode_2026-581.xlsx). The “99%” cited at the meeting divides the 8 by the largest number on the other slide, 707 at Grand in September 2024 on all four approaches (p. 61); like for like, the slides give 97–98% and label January −95%. The loop counter’s continuous record (pp. 74–81), complete for the winter of 2025–26 before the first email in the file, which the borough’s engineers offered to the City on June 10 (p. 8, postscript) and sent to EXP on August 28 (p. 19), gives 4,891 passages over December–March (41 a day, 46 on weekdays) and about 700 a day in summer 2026; the total, the figure that bears on exposure, was not cited at council.
The need for additional winter parking was never measured. The release contains no inventory of on-street spaces, no occupancy count, no survey and no estimate of spaces created; the “50 to 60 spaces” the councillor gave the APC-NDG at its consultation meeting, and repeated on CBC Daybreak on October 9, appears nowhere. The mandate asks the consultant to count spaces that could be “recréer” (p. 4); the offer promises an analysis of “l’impact sur le nombre de places” with no field work (p. 10); the consultant worked from aerial imagery (p. 19).
The exercise does not follow the City’s own published review method (Feb 10, 2026 audit: “recueillir les données, analyser et corriger au besoin”, field observation through the peak season, SUM-led, results due end of 2026; Terrebonne named among streets for joint safety work).
A fuller analysis is in the executive summary Access request 2026-581: what the borough’s file shows (October 9, 2026), in derived/, together with the loop-counter daily totals from bundle 01, pp. 74–81, parsed to CSV.
The councillor’s statements on CBC Daybreak (October 9, 2026) are checked against this file in the companion repository, Terrebonne-open-sources/2026-cbc-daybreak-interview/.
Each derived document carries a version tag of the form YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss (America/Toronto): in the PDFs at the right of the page footer and in the PDF metadata (Subject), in the .tex as \docversion, and in the .txt files as a last line. Files built in the same run share a tag. When citing or comparing drafts, quote the tag; the date in the byline is the date of the analysis, not of the build.
| File | Content |
|---|---|
derived/Terrebonne_2026-581_executive_summary_en.pdf (+ .tex) |
Executive summary and analysis, English (original) |
derived/Terrebonne_2026-581_executive_summary_fr.pdf (+ .tex) |
Sommaire et analyse, version française (traduction ; l’anglais fait foi) |
derived/Terrebonne_2026-581_summary_points_en.{pdf,tex,txt} |
The summary points alone (two pages); .txt is UTF-8, one unnumbered paragraph per point, for pasting into social media |
derived/Terrebonne_2026-581_summary_points_fr.{pdf,tex,txt} |
Les points sommaires seuls (deux pages) ; .txt en UTF-8, un paragraphe non numéroté par point, pour les médias sociaux |
derived/kensington_daily_borough_release_2025-07_2026-08.csv |
Loop-counter daily totals, bundle 01 pp. 74–81, parsed to CSV. First year, July 26, 2025 – July 25, 2026: 135,276 bicycle passages (371 a day) and 501,817 motor vehicles (1,375 a day), one bicycle for every 3.7 motor vehicles. A lower bound: May 29–31, 2026 are three zero days (outage), and the westbound bicycle channel is degraded from about March 1, 2026 (see the Limits section of the 2026-300 note) |
derived/miovision_counts_by_mode_2026-581.xlsx (+ .csv) |
Miovision class totals (cars, buses, trucks, bicycles, pedestrians) for every count day, bundle 01 pp. 82–164: six peak hours (06:30–09:30, 15:30–18:30) and 12 h, all four approaches and the Terrebonne axis alone; the Grand counts of January 29, 2025 (source of the “12” and “8”) broken out by mode, with cars per cyclist and change against November 20, 2024. The .csv is the long table only |
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Protected lanes built; Terrebonne made one-way |
| 2025-01-29 | Single-day Miovision counts at Cavendish and Grand |
| 2025-02 | Borough count-analysis presentation; updated later in 2025 |
| 2025-06-09 | Framework agreements awarded (CA25 170126) |
| 2025-07-26 | Loop counter at Kensington in service |
| 2026-06-10 | Borough asks SUM for an opinion on two cross-sections restoring parking |
| 2026-06-17 | SUM express analysis returned |
| 2026-06-22 / 07-13 | Borough asks SIM; SIM replies |
| 2026-08-13 | Mayor’s office sets the mandate: bidirectional lane on one side, return of parking |
| 2026-08-18 → 26 | Mandate to EXP: request, offer, purchase order |
| 2026-09-03 | Kick-off meeting |
| 2026-09-17 | Preliminary note delivered |
| 2026-10-02 | Final note due |
| 2026-10-06 | Council meeting; winter conversion announced |
| 2026-10-09 | This response |