Mayor Denis Coderre has aggressively pushed a campaign to cover the Ville Marie trench and it looks like this project might actually be on the rails.
It's an exciting project but hasn't caught fire, in fact I too am inexplicably bored by it.
By rights this should be a real interesting deal because it'd actually create land in the downtown core which would conceivably be most desirable considering that there's a massive French superhospital complex being built nearby.
It would also allow for a new beginning to an area that was probably pretty cool before it was demolished.
But in spite of its logical appeal, there seems to be little excitement over this idea.
It might be because the area is somewhat overrun by panhandlers wandering around until their rooms at the nearby Old Brewery Mission shelter are open.
Maybe we've lose the impulse to think of Old Montreal and the St. Catherine St. area as nearby areas, so connecting them doesn't' seem like a priority.
Indeed Coderre seems to be more enthusiastic about this than most, possibly because his office at City Hall overlooks the current eyesore.