Fulfilling a 2017 promise, city hall will be looking for the right person to become its first czar of the night, with the mandate of developing a policy about nightlife and noise.
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Kate
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Kate
There have been lots of incidents on the roads inside and outside town throughout the snowstorm.
I was downtown this evening and saw a startling thing. I’d just got off the 24 bus near McGill. Sherbrooke Street was full of pedestrians and traffic despite the storm. As the bus moved slowly away, a young woman ran up behind it, lay down on the road, grabbed the bus bumper with one hand and held up a selfie stick with the other. I watched as the bus moved off into traffic, pulling her along behind it. And since there are no reports of deaths in traffic on Sherbrooke Street, I guess she survived the prank. Anyone seen the video?
walkerp
Never with a bus, nor on busy streets, but bumper skiing was a not uncommon practice among kids where I grew up.
denpanosekai
what the actual fuck.
in other crazy surprising news — my bus was right on time this morning. Absolute madness.
j2
Skitching used to be super common, at least in Ottawa in the late 70s and 80s, but it was on your feet ya and it wasn’t for the views.
Francesco
Stitching behind school buses in the West Island was almost a means of transport in itself when I was a kid!
Francesco
Autocorrected from “skitching”!
raymond lutz
Nous on appelait ça faire du “ski bottine”. Seuls les plus téméraires (inconscients?) de la classe ne faisait…
dwgs
Bumper hitching where I’m from.
JaneyB
Bumper shining on the Prairies.
Kate
Growing up as I did in the city – for part of my childhood I actually lived on the Decarie service road – doing this kind of stunt was unknown to me. I still think it was insane to try it on Sherbrooke Street at rush hour, even given the snowstorm.
Ian
We used to do that on our bikes or skateboards with trucks & buses when we were kids & teenagers but didn’t have a name for it. I still see young people doing it here now and then, but mostly bike couriers.
Actual lying down on the road and uploading it to TikTok (presumably) is kind of next-level though…Kevin
I’ll stick to motorcycling instead of doing stupid shit like that
Hamza
Here’s a video I’m sure is related/the same person:
There are def jokes to be made here but this is really something awful and selfish. If something had happened, it would’ve affected a hell of a lot of ppl in the midst of a situation that is already really demanding on city and emergency services.
Kate
It was darker outside when I saw her, past 5 p.m., so even chancier. I link above to CTV’s report as well.
dwgs
Kate, I may have been on that bus. I got on the 24 at the Roddick Gates a few minutes before 5. The driver stopped just before de la Montagne and he and a passerby walked to the back of the bus and did something for a couple of minutes and then off we went. I was reading beforehand and just figured it was something to do with snow buildup or the like.
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Kate
Arthur Kaptainis compares and contrasts the city’s two symphony orchestras.
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Kate
UQÀM is about to undertake a census of the trees on the island of Montreal. The city does an estimate twice yearly using lidar, but the university researchers will be out measuring trees and taking samples.
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Kate
Three advertising companies are hoping the Supreme Court will hear their plea to force Plateau borough to allow billboards on its territory. The law has already been through several court rulings and is currently set at “no”.
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Kate
Here are five facts about the Montreal metro which are perhaps not quite as unknown as all that. The start of the initial excavations in 1963 at Jarry were saluted last year with a ceremony to unveil a memorial plaque just inside the station building.
Simon
We can see the spot of the first picture here
https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.5433272,-73.6287968,3a,35.5y,188.05h,90.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5EPlt-Xm4tWLIJqm5edWag!2e0!7i13312!8i6656Raymond Lutz
Fun fact #6: “Afin d’aider à combler le déficit accumulé par la construction du métro et l’Exposition universelle de 1967, le maire de Montréal, Jean Drapeau , instaure une taxe volontaire. Elle se présente sous la forme d’une loterie qui offre des prix d’une valeur de 150 000 $ remis en lingots d’argent.” ( source)
Fun fact #7: “During the Soviet period, planners required a city’s population to top 1 million before work would begin on a subway. Tashkent’s population reached the milestone in the early 1960s” “It was the seventh metro to be built in the former USSR, opening in 1977” (source: The Gorgeous Metro Stations of Uzbekistan and Wikipedia)
Damned commies! Note: gulag forced labour stopped in the ’50
Kate
Right, Raymond Lutz. Drapeau ran the “voluntary tax” drawing a few times and it was a big success, then Quebec said no no no, that’s illegal, you have to stop. Then Quebec turned around, launched Loto-Quebec, and have been cleaning up ever since.
Daniel
Point 5: Could it be argued the REM is in fact the long awaited Line 3?
Kate
The REM is certainly doing what Line 3 was supposed to do, using the tunnel. The rest of the REM’s route doesn’t have much to do with it, I don’t think.
ant6n
CDPQInfra has argued or at least implied that the REM is the line 3, even posting an image where they inserted the REM on a historical picture of Drapeau pointing at a map of line 3. There are some similarities, but its a bit of a stretch, and the whole PR bit is oddly self-congratulatory.
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Kate
Many schools are closed (list here). More snow is expected to accumulate throughout Friday.Planned road closures may be limited by the weather this weekend.
At 8 a.m. the sidewalk outside my place has not yet been plowed. Just getting to the bus is going to be a slog. How is it where you are?
Update: Snow clearance is set to begin Saturday.
dwgs
On my block in NDG nothing cleared, totally snowbound. Three blocks to the east where a private subcontractor does the work instead of the city all roads and sidewalks had been plowed at least once.
jeather
St Henri, street and sidewalk are plowed, sidewalks better than they were downtown.
Kate
I dug out my front steps and walk, but the sidewalk was still not plowed by 10 when I left.
I signalled to the bus driver to stop short and let me on where there’s a plowed parking lot entrance, because so much snow was piled up at the real stop that I would’ve been white to the knees if I’d had to step through it.
Tim S.
In my part of NDG I heard the sidewalk plows go by overnight, but I don’t think they’ve been by since. The street’s been done during the morning.
j2 01:21 on 2020-02-08 Permalink
I nominate my friend, Party Rob, he will thrive on a mandate of developing nightlife and noise. Especially on the plateau.