The Old Port is to maintain its curfew from midnight to 6 a.m. till the end of the summer.
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Kate
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Kate
Denis Coderre has been fined for using his phone at the wheel of his car at a traffic light.
Joey
So if I see someone using their phone at a red light, can I send a photo in to the police and they’ll get a ticket?
Kate
It’s not likely to work if the person’s not recognizable for who they are.
Joey
In my little thought experiment there’s a photo of the license plate + one of the driver holding their phone. If you’re right and it’s only applicable to celebs or hypocritical politicians, Coderre should fight the ticket.
dhomas
You can report any driver for an infraction with their license plate. I’ve reported road rage and reckless driving, damage to city property, and inflammatory vanity plates.
License plate + a picture of the person to make sure that the driver registered to the vehicle was the one driving. The license plate alone does not definitively identify the person driving the vehicle. I think that’s what Kate meant by “recognizable for who they are”. Otherwise, you can contest that you were not the person driving.
Tim S.
Police can give tickets for infractions they don’t witness, but they are generally reluctant to do so, partly because they’re easy to contest. When I was in a fairly minor accident on the 10, an SQ officer spent an hour taking my statement to make sure the ticket she issued (to the other driver) would hold up in court. They’re not going to go that every time someone complains about a bad driver, though maybe it would be nice if they would.
JP
Are there restrictions on how loud or vroom-y cars can be? Some of them get really loud in the summer, and I’ve been wondering if there are restrictions on this.
MarcG
I’ve wondered the same thing. It’s baffling that people pay money to make their vehicles louder. I found this from the SAAQ specifically regarding motorcycles that says you can’t modify them to make them noisier. https://saaq.gouv.qc.ca/en/road-safety/modes-transportation/motorcycle/motorcycle-exhaust-sound-levels/
Kevin
Lots of places try making laws or bylaws against loud exhausts. They always seem to give up because it’s too much of a PITA to get the few cops who can use a decibel meter in the right spot, and if there’s a delay between the stop and the testing, the offender is able to swap their pipes for the originals.
Another issue is that it’s easy to make a vehicle louder: just ride around in a lower gear than is necessary, listening to the Song of the Sausage Creature (look it up).
That’s not me.
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Kate
CTV gives lavish permission to complain, complain, complain about roadwork in the Plateau with a cranky piece about the changes planned for Pine Avenue, with cites from people in the area already gearing up for a major kvetch-fest. Here’s the city’s page about its plans, and a La Presse piece from April.
DeWolf
I really don’t understand the CTV piece. Two random people moaning about an essential construction project that is replacing a century-old water main – is that really worth an article? Especially since it doesn’t shine any light on the project except for a throwaway comment about “needing to fix the pipes.”
Matt G
I mean, we can easily contact the “Journalists” and call them out on it. Or report the whole thing as a “factual error”. Maybe they’ll get the message that articles like this do nothing to advance any sort of conversation other than complaining.
thomas
The business owner is hardly random. A business at the corner of St. Laurent and Ave. du Parc will be maximally impacted by construction projected to last until 2023. The is an argument to be made that Montreal is not efficient in the timely planning and execution of such projects. Perhaps pressure to complete this project more rapidly is a good thing.
Kate
There is never a good time to dig up an entire street to replace hundred-year-old water mains and sewers, but at some point the bullet has to be bit and the work has to be done. And the city’s quite right in judging that Pine from St-Denis to Park is a pretty bleak stretch of road that can usefully be upgraded aesthetically at the same time.
DeWolf
Sure, thomas, but that’s why the project is split into two phases. Harry Toulch is still accessible from St-Laurent and Pine West, and when the work is completed on Pine East, that stretch will once again be open as construction begins on the western component. I’m not sure how it could be done any better. It’s a bit rich to be complaining about a construction project that literally just began this week.
The city has also been getting better at managing these sorts of projects. We’re a long way from the disastrous, interminable digs on St-Laurent and St-Denis. In the past few years, the St-Hubert reconstruction was completed on time, and the Ste-Catherine rebuilt is on schedule as well.
thomas
I agree with what you say. But, 2 years to complete 600m of street work, assuming everything goes to according to plan, doesn’t that seem long? For comparison, a similar project in Toronto on 700m of road started in February and ended September of the same year.
DeWolf
It’s 1km of work in two phases, which is why it’s taking two years. Half will be done over the next year, half will be done the year after that. If you shut down the entire stretch of Pine from Park to St-Denis and did everything in one go, it would take less time, but cause much more disruption.
If you’re referring to the Ossington rebuild in Toronto, it has been pretty heavily criticized for leaving the street in exactly the same horrible condition as it was before – narrow sidewalks, hydro poles, high-speed traffic, no trees. I’d rather have a project that runs a few months longer but results in a better urban environment.
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Kate
Work has resumed on the Royalmount project after a year’s pause, but the zoning change for the proposed residential elements has not been approved and may not get approval for awhile yet – if at all. This Radio-Canada piece includes more details, including that it’s Montreal that insisted on a residential element, but that it’s to be 3250 luxury condos, and no mention of social housing or – that weasel word – “affordable” ones.
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