Testing clinics coming to neighbourhoods
Testing centres will be popping up in the city’s hot zones, which right now are apparently RDP, St-Michel and Montreal North.
Professional cyclist James Piccoli biked over Mount Royal 100 times on Sunday in a fundraising stunt that collected $15,000.
TVA says that, so far, the Plateau’s closed streets have not been used for recreational purposes much. It doesn’t seem surprising that what people want this time of year is parks.
Four La Presse writers teamed up to examine how the Institut de gériatrie, considered state of the art in looking after old people, became the site of an outbreak that has so far claimed the lives of 59 inmates.
DeWolf 11:38 on 2020-05-04 Permalink
It hasn’t been in the news but the side streets between St-Viateur and Bernard in Mile End have also been closed to through traffic.
Ian 19:52 on 2020-05-04 Permalink
I saw “recreational streets” in Mile End this weekend, I live on JM just north of Fairmount – just all the streets between Parc and St Urbain closed off between Saint V and Barnard… but not actually closed, just signs up saying “local traffic only”. Except that nobody in the neighbourhood was notified so nobody knew what it was for until a few people read it in the paper. It has mostly been ignored because whatever who cares, people still walk where they walk and kids are playing in the alley and going into each others houses like the lockdown doesn’t exist, which is kind of driving me nuts. Of course the cones just got moved aside. by people actually living on the blocks, and people are still driving around as usual.
This “initiative” only makes a difference if the locals are actually informed of it. Typical PM empty gestures. Shame they are still powerless to do anything about renovictions or gentrification.
They seem incapable of actually doing anything at all besides randomly putting up temporary street furniture. I wonder what their point is even supposed to be now that all of their endless committees to determine how powerless they are have been suspended.