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Joëlle Green figures the orange road cones around the city have cost her at least 80 per cent of the business at her clothing accessory shop in Old Montreal in the past four years.

Now, if traffic snarls to get in and out of Old Montreal because of roadwork weren’t enough, someone has hired a contractor to do construction work on the sidewalk across the street from her St-Paul St. E. shop at the corner of St-Vincent St., one block west of Place Jacques-Cartier.

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Business owners like Green say they fear that any more construction work along what is normally a tourist-packed street in the summer will further discourage visitors from coming to Old Montreal.

“My lease is expiring in December, and that’s if I can keep paying rent until then,” Green said, describing the street so far this summer as being “like a ghost town.” After eight years in business, she said she’s not going to renew the lease for her shop, Josephine Collection.