Metro catches Mayor Plante looking a little tense in response to the closure of many businesses extended till January 11. That should just about hold us till the surge of post-Christmas infections hits.
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Kate
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Kate
The Impact has been eliminated from the MLS playoffs.
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Kate
La Presse says the first snowfall is coming on Sunday forgetting we already had one toward the end of October. The city is guaranteeing that if there’s a storm, plowing will be done even if the blue collar workers declare a strike.
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Kate
Rather than post a link every Friday to whichever media outlet has run a piece about weekend traffic, I have put a link to Mobilité Montréal in the sidebar above the “recent posts” block. Thanks to the reader who reprimanded me about posting the media links every week.
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Kate
Drivers lost an average 130 hours of their lives to sitting in traffic in 2019. I’m shocked that this article equates the experience to “listening to the John Lennon song ‘Imagine’ 2513 times in a row.” John Lennon?! They couldn’t find a Quebec song that runs to roughly 3:55?
Blork
I’m surprised it’s not more than that. If you image someone works 49 weeks a year (three weeks of vacation) and they drive to work five days a week (so ten trips a week) that adds up to about 16 minutes per commute.
And just for the sake of argument, compare that to the 600 hours a year I spent on the Metro and buses when I worked up in “The Triangle.” But at least I could read or listen to some audio for most of that. Although in calculating… about 200 of those hours were dead zones for reading (waiting outside, walking, waiting on the platform…)
MarcG
I think the 130 hours is sitting-in-gridlock time and not commute time. 16 minutes staring at the bumper in front of you feels like forever no matter what song is on the radio.
EmilyG
“Imagine there’s no traffic,
It’s easy if you try…”Sprocket
When I lived in midtown Toronto (St Clair near Bathurst) and worked in Mississauga it was about two hours each way. That equates to 1000 hours per year. That is why my car was an automatic. Doing that amount of time in stop and go traffic driving stick would have killed me.
Kate
Sprocket, that’s horrible. You didn’t think of moving closer?
Blork
…or changing jobs? I thought only U.S. people had commutes like that. Four hours a day? That is literally insane!
Last week my sweetie and I had to go to Drummondville for something (don’t ask, don’t judge) and that’s about an hour away. When we got there I said “Imagine, some people drive this long just to get to work everyday” and it felt like the most insane thing imaginable. But two hours each way, every day? Yikes!
GC
As someone who grew up in the Greater Toronto Area, as homes got more and more expensive, I don’t think a two hour commute was even all that unusual… Moving closer wasn’t always that feasible, if you had a partner who worked on the other side of the city. (Or liked the schools your kids could go to where you lived…) A house often lasts longer than a job, too.
dwgs
Nope, that’s T.O. Back in the mid 80’s my sister lived in Oshawa, 70 km out of town and my b-i-l spent 2.5 hours in the car on an average day. Every day.
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Kate
Here’s a summary of the complicated Quebec rules for managing pandemic concerns around Christmas. CTV notes that the prime minister is not specifically criticizing Quebec’s plan, but is asking us to tighten up on our observance of the rules.
Blork
I reckon about 1% of people will follow those rules correctly, and that’s me being generous.
Kate
I know. I only wish that by staying home alone I could compensate for one of the people who’s going to take these loosened rules as permission to go socially nutso over the whole holiday period, but contagion doesn’t work that way.
Kevin
We already told the grandparents we won’t be seeing them at Christmas.
Kate
It’s sad, and I’m sure the kids and grandparents miss each other, but you’re doing the right thing.
More than once this year I’ve found myself thinking the blursed thought that I’m glad my folks are already gone so I haven’t had to worry about them in this mess.
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Kate
A mother and daughter duo who used to work at the Lester B. Pearson school board have been arrested in an alleged fraud plot connected with documentation of foreign students from India.
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Kate
There’s been an arrest in the Villeray shooting on Thursday. Both the victim and the suspect were already “known to police.”
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Kate
La Presse reports that residents are unsettled by the large numbers of homeless gathering around the shelter established at the hotel in Place Dupuis.
Spi
A journalist interviewed a few people waiting in line for a room at place dupuis (for a radio piece on rad-can) and some are coming from surprisingly far, more than one came from the “l’ouest” and one even as far as Dorion.
I wonder how those old-montreal residents that were concerned about increased violence on their streets feel about the situation, people shuffling between the day-center in the old-port and the hotel would logically imply many more homeless in an area that typically doesn’t have many.
Janet
Accueil Bonneau is on rue de la Commune. The Old Brewery Mission is just down the hill. We see lots of homeless people during the day. They are part of our neighbourhood. I doubt they’re responsible for the increased violence.
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Kate
I know from local Instagrams that we’ve had an influx of wild turkeys recently. Text and video from Radio-Canada, which shows a gang of them lurking somewhere in Rosemont-LaPP. Nice car. Be a shame if anything happened to it.
jeather
It’s a lovely day in the city and you are a horrible turkey.
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Kate
The Journal says bluntly that the man murdered with five shots in Villeray Thursday had ties to the Mafia. Global simply mentions that police are investigating.
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Kate
T’cha Dunlevy discovers that Kamala Harris went to FACE, or at least to its predecessor, FACES.
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Kate
A café in eastern Saint-Laurent has been firebombed for two nights running. At any rate, CTV calls it a warehouse café and the Gazette calls it a warehouse. It’s one of those areas with small wholesalers and minor industries in one-storey rows.
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