Luis Miranda hopes to continue taking on the city of Montreal.
The mayor of Anjou is irate with the way Montreal handles public works projects in his borough.
“You go across the street there on Jean-Talon, again there nobody came to inspect, the asphalt is already popping up,” Miranda told Global News as he pointed to different parts of an Anjou road.
Miranda is running as an independent in the Montreal 2017 elections and is taking aim at the mayor of Montreal, Denis Coderre.
“Why would we want Coderre in full majority, they do only what he wants,” he said.
One of the challengers to Miranda is Angela Mancini who is running on the Coderre ticket.
The chair of the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) argues she is the best candidate to move the borough forward.
She wants to improve local bus service.
“The present administration for a long time hasn’t gone forward and did a lot of innovative things that could make the borough better than it already is,” she told Global News.
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The borough of Anjou is located in the eastern part of Montreal and covers more than 13 square kilometres. The population is aging but it’s also growing. Almost 43,000 people live here. French is the mother tongue for 60 per cent of residents. English is 3.8 per cent.
And almost half — 48 percent — are bilingual.
One of the major issues is mobility.
The borough is a mix of high density housing, bustling commerce and converging highways running through the middle of the borough.
The government’s plan to extend the metro blue line to Anjou is supposed to help ease the congestion but for now little has happened beyond conversation.
One person who plans to move the public transit agenda forward is Rémy Tondreau.
The Projet Montréal candidate has lived in Anjou almost his entire life.
And while the party leader, Valérie Plante, is pitching a new pink line for the metro network, Tondreau argues both proposals, a new pink line and extending the blue one, can be fast-tracked.
“We would continue to focus on that and push it a notch further,” he said.
Voters have a chance to make their decision on Nov. 5.
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