SPVM cops have been handing out tickets to drivers illegally using disabled parking spaces.
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Kate
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Kate
Having realized that his “no booze after 8 in the parks” idea was a lemon, Denis Coderre did an about-face on Thursday.
Trying desperately to find something to say that will keep everyone happy, Coderre is also proposing a hybrid project at the Lachine marina, which city hall has promised to convert into a park. Coderre thinks it can be both!
Update on the latter: a Lachine councillor has joined up with Coderre and plans to run for borough mayor. Her marquee issue: preserve the marina.
Ephraim
So basically, he has no idea what to do.
Kate
He doesn’t have a coherent vision – never did.
david853
Coderre could win my vote back by promising a wholesale repeal of all open container laws or enforcement of provincial laws in this égard.
Kate
And he’d lose votes from people who don’t want rowdy crowds in their parks and streets.
Anyway, no mayoral candidate can promise to openly break provincial law. I just had a scrap about this kind of thing on Facebook with someone angry that Plante had withdrawn Coderre’s promise to make Montreal a sanctuary city. Coderre said that because it made him look good (and he did it, what’s more, in an atmosphere created by Donald Trump, so its relevance here was only notional).
Plante repealed the promise because she knows the city doesn’t have the power to break federal and provincial law. She doesn’t do things to showboat. Coderre does most things to showboat.
thomas
You are correct Kate. Sanctuary cities were in response to a very specific US Federal law (that obliged local enforcement to detain and notify ICE of anyone suspected of being undocumented regardless of whether they committed a crime). There is no such law in Canada so the announcement in Canada was symbolic and had no significance. I wonder if Coderre even bothered to understand the context.
Paul
I’m having deja vu of the micro sidewalk in Parc Laurier…Coderre thought it could be both!
Narrator voice: It couldn’t
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Kate
The beleaguered Île-aux-Tourtes bridge is to fully reopen on Saturday morning.
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Kate
Mayor Plante was to inaugurate the “new” Plaza St-Hubert on Friday, but representatives of the city’s engineering union showed up and made a lot of noise to drown her out.
The union is pressing the city to give more work to its own internal workers rather than contracting out to private enterprise.
Update: Radio-Canada reports on the inauguration itself. The street will be pedestrianized all weekend.
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Kate
A heat wave is expected to set in Sunday and continue into next week with temperatures as high as 34° in the forecast.
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Kate
The eastbound 40 has been closed this morning at Ste-Anne after a truck damaged a sign standard. This was the top story on CBC radio news so I know it’s important.
Update: Around 9:45 a tweet said the highway had reopened.
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Kate
La Presse examines the factors that have changed Old Montreal from a peaceful tourist trap and elite residential setting to a louche playground for tough guys.
DeWolf
The guy who said he has faced reprisals for speaking out publicly against the Airbnbs in his building makes me think that some of these Old Montreal party pads are being run by organized crime.
Spi
Considering that an entire project/building is known for it’s ties with the mafia, I’d say that’s a pretty safe bet.
Ephraim
AirBnB this week sent out reminders that people have to have their licences listed. Of course, they suggested that they are fighting the government on it. And of course, they didn’t put in a place where you have to list it, as they did with Vancouver and other places.
No department fights organized crime like Revenu Quebec… they just send in the tax man.
David736
Sending the taxman into Old Montreal qua strategy to quell violence is brilliant.
Kate
You use the legal tools at your disposal. Al Capone was caught over unpaid taxes.
dwgs 21:19 on 2021-06-04 Permalink
Only in Montreal is it news when the cops do their job
Joey 21:32 on 2021-06-04 Permalink
I didn’t know cops patrolled parking lots. Now do gas-powered cars parked in electric vehicle charging station spots!
Kate 22:05 on 2021-06-04 Permalink
Hmm, if cops don’t watch over the misuse of disabled spaces normally, who does? What are the usual consequences for able-bodied drivers taking that space?
Joey 00:02 on 2021-06-05 Permalink
I always assumed disabled spaces in privately owned parking lots weren’t subject to police oversight, but certainly don’t object.
Ephraim 06:45 on 2021-06-05 Permalink
About time. $315 isn’t nearly enough. I’ve called the cops to report them a few times. Or they use it as a “waiting” spot. Ever tried to get them to move? They won’t. Or they park for a few “minutes”, not realizing that someone handicapped will see it as taken and have to continue to look. Saturday, there was a raised F150 parked in a handicapped spot with no remorse at all.
@Joey – Same $315 ticket, even on parking lots. A handicapped spot is protected parking for the disabled 24 hours a day. And the law also stipulated how many spots you are supposed to have in a large parking lot.
Kate 09:24 on 2021-06-05 Permalink
Ephraim, one of my friends is driving a borrowed F150. Climbing up into it takes an effort, and I’m able-bodied. I imagine most disabled people would have a lot of trouble with it.
Ephraim 10:17 on 2021-06-05 Permalink
@Kate – I know. And he was parked in a handicapped spot (no placard) and covering a second spot as well. The harm caused by doing things like this doesn’t even match the $315 ticket.
People should know that if they see it, do something. Call the cops and let them get the ticket. Some people carry a wet-erase market, so they can mark the window. It’s purely shameful to take the spot needed by someone who is handicapped. It’s causing pain and suffering on someone else.
jeather 12:17 on 2021-06-05 Permalink
Someone with a disability placard might be driving a truck — who knows why they are using that truck or what reason they have for using a placard. The issue is the lack of placard. When I used to drive my grandmother places we might choose a restaurant that had a handicapped spot right in front, but it was always full of someone with their hazards on and no placard. You can work it out, especially when the restaurant staff is helpful (thank you, Star of India on Ste-Catherine), but it’s a real pain.
j2 20:53 on 2021-06-05 Permalink
It’s interesting that bathrooms are an accommodation (that’s maybe not the correct descriptor but it’s eluding me) whereas parking is a different beast.
My mom has MS and even though it was diagnosed after my dad had his midlife sports car crisis, she needed to be as close as possible to the door because navigation was extremely difficult. It didn’t stop the abuse he got and they were properly accredited. (I’m not suggesting a truck taking two spots is the same either, even supposing there is a legit passenger that’s still two spots)