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• Kate 20:24 on 2021-06-01 Permalink | Reply  

  Restaurant owners – at least, high-profile David McMillan – are unhappy with roadwork starting up near their establishments, just as things reopen.

  It’s a funny thing, watching this from the blog. If the roads are bumpy and full of potholes, complaints. If there are problems with sewers or other infrastructure, complaints. But the city comes along to repair or maintain this stuff… and there are complaints.

  I got a notice yesterday that the next street over will be having sewer work, and it’s possible that people in the area will not be able to run any water for up to 48 hours. That’s going to be a puzzle.

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  • YUL514 21:23 on 2021-06-01 Permalink

    I gather he’s upset that roadwork is starting right when restos are allowed to re-open, I’d be agitated too if my place was closed down since October and now all of a sudden they want to do road work. I get most road work is done is the warmer season but they could have started in April. I think his frustration is warranted, you would be too.

  • j2 21:32 on 2021-06-01 Permalink

    Well no income for 16 months and _now_ you want to rip up the street!?

    This is like closing most of the park in saint Raymond last summer to build a semi-private bocce court and this year to remove paths and add a dog park and picnic tables. Go away, we need the outdoor space! (Rant over)

  • walkerp 12:27 on 2021-06-02 Permalink

    The problem is that the work itself is so inefficient and low quality. So yes it needs to be repaired but do th repairs have to take multiple years and then end up just as crappy a few years down the road.

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• Kate 20:20 on 2021-06-01 Permalink | Reply  

  A study is suggesting extending the REM de l’Est to the couronne nord.

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  • Uatu 10:19 on 2021-06-02 Permalink

    I want my imaginary train to extend into taschereau blvd in both directions. And I want a pony. 😛

  • Daniel D 11:04 on 2021-06-02 Permalink

    I guess the cheapest way for them to do this would be to take over the Mascouche line after Pointe-aux-Trembles. However, unlike the Deux-Montagnes line the Mascouche line is also used by Via Rail and freight between there and just beyond Repentigny station.

  • Jonathan 13:41 on 2021-06-02 Permalink

    I loled at the quote from the representative about the lack of vision for the REM: Nous sommes préoccupés par le manque de vision métropolitaine…

• Kate 20:18 on 2021-06-01 Permalink | Reply  

  As of Tuesday, a segment of Wellington Street will be pedestrianized all summer.

   

• Kate 15:36 on 2021-06-01 Permalink | Reply  

  Restaurants will be able to open Monday, June 7, with some public health limit rules still in place. We will be in the orange zone.

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  • david795 21:53 on 2021-06-01 Permalink

    Vaguely a propos – does anyone know if Nantha Kumar is cooking somewhere these days?

  • Kate 08:30 on 2021-06-02 Permalink

    Nantha’s still active on Facebook but doesn’t mention any particular gig at the moment. Mid-pandemic, he was doing stuff to take out from Centrale Culinaire, but that outfit seems to have closed up shop – its website has gone away, at least.

• Kate 12:48 on 2021-06-01 Permalink | Reply  

  Work on the L-H-Lafontaine tunnel, delayed last summer by the pandemic, is now set to begin this summer, and efforts will be made to persuade people into public transit to reduce the traffic snarls bound to be a result. Other road construction will also be on the menu.

   

• Kate 08:46 on 2021-06-01 Permalink | Reply  

  Almost hardly seems worth mentioning, but the Canadiens eliminated the Leafs Monday evening, and embark on their next challenge against the Jets Wednesday evening in Winnipeg.

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  • Meezly 11:13 on 2021-06-01 Permalink

    As a non-sports fan, it is a refreshing change from the bitter complaints and disappointments of Habs performance rehashed season after season.

• Kate 08:43 on 2021-06-01 Permalink | Reply  

  When the man always called the caïd Raynald Desjardins got out of jail earlier this year, cops were on the alert for trouble among the Mafia and the gangs. Now Desjardins is behind bars again for breaking parole conditions, but the authorities are seemingly waiting for a high-profile execution or something of the sort, as the old-style Mafia and the gangs sort out who’s to be the next capo de tutti capi.

   

• Kate 08:38 on 2021-06-01 Permalink | Reply  

  Hundreds of people gathered on Mount Royal on Monday evening to mourn the 215 Indigenous children whose remains were found near that B.C. residential school.

   

• Kate 08:36 on 2021-06-01 Permalink | Reply  

  Many of the wading pools in parks around town will stay closed this summer, because it seems there’s no way to guarantee the water is safely cycled.

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  • Joey 09:36 on 2021-06-01 Permalink

    This is a small-scale disgrace, and hard to justify to boot. The wading pool at Jeanne-Mance Park, for instance, has no filtration or water circulation system – it’s basically a shallow concrete tub. Once an hour, more or less, everyone exits the pool, a supervisor decked out in a DIY hazmat suit (rubber boots, gloves, apron and a visor) drips chlorine around the pool, waits a few minutes and then does a chemical check. If the chlorine concentration is sufficient, everyone can go back in the water. It’s been this way since time immemorial. Now all of a sudden this is inadequate (for non-COVID reasons)? Given that there are no plans to upgrade the pool, especially since the adjacent playground was needlessly redone a few yeas ago, does this mean the JMP wading pool is closed for good? I’d ask Alex Norris about it but I am not in the mood to be told that it’s someone else’s fault and that I’m wrong. Meanwhile, the forecast is calling for 32 degrees on Sunday.

  • Meezly 11:43 on 2021-06-01 Permalink

    I wouldn’t say the adjacent playground was needlessly redone – the big kid section was in dire need of an overhaul. I admit I have mixed opinions about some of the oddly designed play structures but it was a welcome, if flawed, upgrade.

    I agree about that gross wading pool though. It’d be so much better as a water park instead. I wonder if this is something that can be petitioned?

  • jeather 15:11 on 2021-06-01 Permalink

    I didn’t realise there were still so many wading pools, the big thing seems to be splash pads lately. I haven’t been to the playground at JMP but the new structures on other playgrounds are generally pretty cool. I do wish some more places would include swings that adults can sit in too, though..

  • Orr 21:24 on 2021-06-01 Permalink

    Before the renovation, the swings in Jeanne-Mance Park were of an adult size and these swings were tall enough, and the branches of the mature trees were low enough, that you could swing up into the branches.

  • Ant6n 00:35 on 2021-06-03 Permalink

    We got a lot of use it of the plateau’s wading pools in 2019, sad to see then disappear.