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Kate 21:49 on 2019-02-01 Permalink Reply  

• dwgs 11:02 on 2019-02-02 Permalink

  We could play a game of “What Happens First?” Choose from among the following options;

  -Silo #5 repurposed

  -Cavendish extension completed

  -Pink line built

  -Blue line extended

  -‘Expos’ return…

• Chris 14:27 on 2019-02-02 Permalink

  hehe, nice one. If average time staying on that list in any indicator, we’ll we waiting some time for the pink line! 🙂

• david100 07:13 on 2019-02-03 Permalink

  So, for some reason, my phone just pushed to me an article about how the baseball league is readying an expansion to 32 teams, with one in Portland, Oregon and one in . . . yes, la ville (nord américaine) aux cent clochers, none other. Obviously, I immediately scoffed at the idea, but then I thought that maybe there’s something going on. It was pushed from like Axios, which is a very credible news source with direct links to US power people. Maybe some Bronfman type has been making the rounds in DC or NYC?

  Also, I’d guess that the Cavendish extension is a pretty good bet to happen under this government. I personally don’t want it, not that I live anywhere near, but as a former Hampstead resident, I can tell you that it’s better for everyone if the people north and south of the 40 aren’t united into a single unpleasant superforce. And as NDG people know, when the north of 40 types send their people, they’re not sending their best, they’re sending cars, drugs, they’re sending teenagers, CPC voters. And some, I assume, are good people.

• Kate 12:06 on 2019-02-03 Permalink

  david100, I thought the problem with the Cavendish extension was that the road would essentially become a highway and funnel more traffic through Côte St-Luc and Hampstead. To get the convenience of easy access to the 40 they seem willing to live with the dirt and risk of more traffic near their cushy homes. I did not think it was about bringing in a seedier class of persons. But perhaps I’ve been mistaken.

  Can you provide us with a link to that Axios story?

• david100 14:41 on 2019-02-03 Permalink

  Yeah, I was just sort of joking about the scum element, but only sort of. The traffic would be the number one issue over there in the event of a through road.

  The Axios article isn’t a story, so much as a brief note about what’s being talked about. Here’s the link: https://www.axios.com/mlb-expansion-portland-oregon-eb1eeb39-8889-46af-b39c-480942e48703.html

• Kevin 18:16 on 2019-02-03 Permalink

  The Cavendish connection should have happened decades ago. And something over or under the train yard to Blue Bonnets.

  100,000 anglos would vote PQ if they promised to ram that extension through.