The STM has arrived at a new deal with its drivers, but its maintenance workers are still without a contract.
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Kate
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Kate
The Montreal Marathon adds to the driving notes for the weekend and will also be altering bus routes between Verdun and the Olympic park. The shorter distances being run as part of the marathon event are taking place Saturday and the full length marathon on Sunday.
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Kate
The city has bought a parcel of land to be added to Anse-à-l’Orme park. It’s part of Angell Woods.
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Kate
A magnificent elm tree in Jarry Park, estimated at 300 years old, has been taken down after it was discovered to be hollowed out by disease and therefore unsafe.
Update: Tree’s estimated age was adjusted down to 170 years after felling (see below).
Another update: La Presse notes that this tree survived the epidemic that destroyed most of this city’s elms in the 1950s, but the disease caught up to it at last.
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Kate
Contrarily to some expectations, crime is not up around the locations of supervised drug injection sites.
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Kate
Commuters are fed up with unreliable service on the Deux-Montagnes line, and held a demonstration this week. Construction of the REM has been interfering with the line, reducing the departures so that available trains are, as they say, sardine class.
In other REM news, environmentalists are distraught about damage being caused at the St‑Laurent Technoparc site.
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Kate
A cyclist was badly hurt in Montreal North Wednesday afternoon.
In addition, a pedestrian in her 80s who was knocked down by a vehicle this week in the same part of town has died of her injuries.
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