It’s been a year since ten-year-old Ariel Kouakou vanished in the north end, leaving no trace. A few new attempts to publicize his picture in hopes of finding him will be made, but it seems police still think he must have fallen into the back river that day, while his parents still suspect a kidnap.
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Kate
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Kate
The city has announced a plan to reduce fatalities on its streets, including reducing speed limits generally, adding more pedestrian crossing lights and thoroughly investigating every fatality.
Ephraim
Any law that isn’t enforced and/or can’t be enforced isn’t really a law. Want to see if it’s enforceable? Hand the cops a packet of tickets and ask them to write a ticket for EVERY violation of the highway code on the streets of Montreal. I’m willing to bet that by the afternoon every cop in the city is going to be complaining that they have writer’s cramp and that they can’t really do anything else.
We need a much better plan. Changing the signs to lower the limit isn’t a plan. They did this a few years ago and it doesn’t work, it just made commutes longer and traffic worse for longer periods. Go back to the drawing board and come up with a real plan…. my first suggestion, actually hire some people who have degrees in urban development from Europe and put some money into public transit and the traffic light system. And start talking to companies about staggering work days, etc. But changing the speed limit… does SFA.
Meezly
It was quite entertaining to read the social media comments of drivers, who were basically in an uproar and quick to blame cyclists & pedestrians for breaking the law, blame the Plante government for being incompetent and say how utterly stupid this is.
The comments on cbc.ca were more informed, with some pointing out that the reduced speed limit policy had been implemented and studied extensively in Sweden. In combination with better road infrastruture, there is evidence that it has resulted in noticeably fewer fatalities.
Not sure if they did studies on how this may worsen traffic, but what should the city focus more on? Faster traffic or saving lives?
Kevin
Was in Toronto last week where the speed limit on big boulevards is 40 km/h.
Most people drove 50 to 60.
It’s also incredibly amusing to see how drivers think cyclists are zipping around at 40 km/h. That’s professional cyclist speed on a flat track!
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Kate
Only two SPVM cops do bicycle patrols all winter, working out of Station 31 in Jarry Park.
Chris
I love the photos of them biking side by side, in violation of Highway Code section 486 “When riding in groups of two or more, cyclists must keep in single file; in no case may such a file be composed of more than 15 cyclists.”
For some reason, when I do that, I get honked at, not lauded in a newspaper. 🙂
Kate
Chris, they’re showing the two of them side by side on the footpath up to the station building in Jarry Park, not on a street.
Chris
Kate did you miss the last photo?
Kate
No, but it was so obviously posed on a quiet street that I guess it didn’t sink in.
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Kate
Businesses along Ontario Street in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve have just learned their street will be dug up for 16 months.
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