Linda Gyulai is beginning a seven-part epic on Saturday about how Montreal manages to keep losing money over a piece of land in Rivière-des-Prairies. Everybody gets dragged into this saga, and it’s not over yet.
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Kate
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Kate
Early Thursday morning, access to the Victoria Bridge was blocked for a couple of hours by a minor train derailment near Bridge and Mill, which created a domino effect traffic snarl all over the southwest part of town. The Journal says the city’s roads are so saturated that any unexpected obstacle, such as the overturned tanker truck on a Champlain bridge access, also Thursday morning, can wreak traffic havoc because there are few alternative routes.
But if there were alternative routes, wouldn’t they already be saturated too, at rush hour?
The expert the Journal consulted doesn’t have a solution except some old, unpopular deterrents to driving which no politician is ever likely to propose. A piece in Metro surveys a few more high-tech approaches to traffic congestion but their expert begins by admitting there is no miracle cure.
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Kate
As of Saturday, private cars can’t cross Mount Royal on the Camillien-Houde. Cyclists, buses and emergency vehicles can pass. Also, according to Andy Riga, funeral cortèges heading for either of the cemeteries. Tour buses are included along with city buses (the 11 and 711) and school buses.
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Kate
The transport minister has confirmed the footbridge for the Turcot, a promise which Radio-Canada slyly observes has “toutes les allures d’une promesse électorale.”
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