Some notes on what’s open and closed for the long weekend. Also traffic notes from several sources and notes on road closures for emergency water main repairs along the Ville-Marie between Atwater and Guy.
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Kate
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Kate
Quebec has finally adopted a law fully permitting the adoption of Uber and, according to some taxi drivers, plunging 22,000 families into poverty.
Ephraim
Does this mean that Uber passengers are cover by the SAAQ, or are you still on Uber’s private insurance in case of an accident? Does anyone know? (Because under the temporary law, you weren’t covered by the SAAQ if the driver was on a passenger car registration.)
thomas
Wonder how they arrive at this figure, there are only 7,600 taxi permits in Quebec.
Joey
@thomas isn’t it common for permit-holders to share/rent their permits when not in use? I can imagine one permit/medallion being used consistently by three+ people…
Jack
I worked with a guy whose dad raised 4 boys working 70 hours a week as a taxi driver.
Thats why I don’t take Ubers.
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Kate
La Presse talks to Alan DeSousa about his idea for extending the orange line to Bois-Franc to link up with the REM, and he finds experts to agree it’s a good idea.
Tim F
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That takes an expert?Kate
It certainly gets more weight as an idea if there are transit experts he can cite. I also note that regular blog commenter ant6n is cited in the piece!
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Kate
St Joseph’s Oratory is proceeding with renovations but wants to raise a million dollars to finish up.
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Kate
The SPVM has decided to teach crisis management to its officers, rather than arming them with more tasers. This is in response to the recent report on racial bias in police behaviour. However, the initial plan to give every cop a taser was in response to the cop-shooting death of Alain Magloire in 2014, which was partly blamed on a lack of other means to subdue him.
Ephraim
One more reason you need cameras and social workers, so they can learn the tactics of TALKING to suspects rather than “subduing” them… which usually seems to be beating them up until unconscious in some cases.
denpanosekai 11:48 on 2019-10-11 Permalink
It’s not on-island at all, but the 30N/S to 10W ramps have had night closures for a while now and it’s really affecting me. Presumably due to the “du Quartier” REM station being built. Where can I get information about these closures?
Mr.Chinaski 09:08 on 2019-10-12 Permalink
https://rem.info/fr/info-travaux
It’s all there on the REM website