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Plans to pedestrianize the street in 2008 were dropped by the City of Montreal after complaints from merchants.

The last change that has been made is the demolition of the concrete benches placed in the 1970s that were built with the intent to pedestrianize the road.

Vehicular traffic was barred during business hours in 1911 by request of the growing number of shop owners along Florida, and in 1913 the tram was dismantled to pedestrianize a section of the street.

This was the same sort of stealth tactic that Lerner employed two decades earlier to pedestrianize the shopping street, but now it was being used against him - coordinated, he maintains, by his political opponents, who controlled the governorship then as they do now.

The Plan's main focuses were to restore and adaptively reuse existing buildings, build new projects that contribute to a coherent campus form, pedestrianize the academic campus, create green buildings and green landscapes, and encourage and/or participate in neighborhood compatible development.

Here, the center for the arts provides a visible image of the "new campus" identity, redefine the landscape and academic quad, create community as it sits along current student paths, and take advantage of shared parking in support of the plan to pedestrianize the center of campus.

All of the above infrastructure is still in use to this day, and there have been continued expansions and proposals to expand Athens' metro, tram, suburban rail and motorway network, the airport, as well as further plans to pedestrianize more thoroughfares in the historic center of Athens.