The city has seen a surge of sporting events since 2012, after a program was adopted to sponsor more of them – going from 35 that year to 55 events sponsored in 2017.
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Kate
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Kate
The STM is adding more platform security to the metro: last year saw a 4% increase in ridership but also a spike in downtimes caused by passengers. I’ve seen more transit cops on platforms lately (more bus muscle checking passes and tickets too), and this item says the STM will be putting out a PR campaign to persuade people not to do the things that mess with metro fluidity.
Also, Le Devoir says the STM is prepared to rethink its whole bus network in view of the changes to be brought by the REM and the blue line extension. It’s impossible to imagine that if an expert came to the city now, with no idea of its current route map but with data about daily transit usage and population trends, that they would reproduce the layout we’ve inherited from the mid 20th century, which you can appreciate particularly via this comparative map made by ant6n.
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Kate
The city’s chamber of commerce has hatched a scheme to bring French lessons to small allophone businesses by sending university students to work with them while teaching them French – and presumably not to say “bonjour, hi” to customers.
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Kate
A women’s march is planned Saturday downtown starting at 11:00 at Place des Arts.
Update: Around 500 people turned out for the event held in sync with many other cities.
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Kate
A class action suit concerning noise around the Ville-Marie autoroute has been settled, and anyone living within a certain perimeter around the highway at certain dates between 1998 and 2000 is eligible for a payout. Details in the item.
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