Montreal City Weblog

Kate 09:00 on 2019-01-07 Permalink Reply  

• Ephraim 10:49 on 2019-01-07 Permalink

  Thousands of laws on the books to ensure the safety of everyone and almost none of them are enforced. And we can’t seem to stop our police from stopping people for driving while black. But yet, we have enough money to buy new devices to measure the distance… but nothing to ensure that police do their jobs ethically or to have them enforce current laws to ensure pedestrian safety.

• qatzelok 10:52 on 2019-01-07 Permalink

  The most important places where the passing rule is dangerously ignored is on numbered provincial roads between towns where the STM police-on-bikes never venture. Give me one of these machines! (Posting from Québec City where I just biked to on the 138)

• SMD 12:16 on 2019-01-07 Permalink

  So glad to see that our former Minister of Transportation, Robert Poëti, has found a new job… as head of the Québec car dealership association and lobbying group. He wants to make cars great again:

  « On ne le dit pas assez que l’automobile est le secteur le plus important au Québec, après l’industrie de la construction. […] Il parle de l’importance de montrer une image plus favorable de l’industrie « qui a été quelque peu dénigrée au cours des dernières années. »

  With people like this still in charge of the MTQ, it is hard to imagine anything encroaching on the place of cars anytime soon.

• ant6n 00:52 on 2019-01-08 Permalink

  @SMD
  I wonder whether there’s a way to find out whatever happened to politicians. For example, I hear Coderre and Chitilian work for CDPQ (Eurostar) and CDPQInfra now. These hires kind of put their policies into ‘perspective’.

• Joey 15:07 on 2019-01-08 Permalink

  @ant6n you can get partway there via the QC lobbyist registry; linkedin can probably take you to about 95%…