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Kate 18:11 on 2021-12-08 Permalink Reply  

• denpanosekai 23:25 on 2021-12-08 Permalink

  bla bla bla. Said snow removal guys are all from outside the island and have very strict quotas to meet. They don’t give a shit. Source: old timer verdun col bleu guy.

• Kevin 10:28 on 2021-12-09 Permalink

  They “cleared” half my street last night, and there is more snow on the ground now than when they started

• MarcG 10:38 on 2021-12-09 Permalink

  I’ll take this opportunity to promote the idea that instead of the clown cars going around and annoying everyone in the neighbourhood, they look up the license plates in the database and phone those individuals. Why must everyone suffer because of a single idiot?

• Joey 10:50 on 2021-12-09 Permalink

  I’m willing to give Maja Vodanovic the benefit of the doubt here, even if the snowfall seemed relatively small for a full-on operation. That said, when the snow turned to rain many of the drains were at least partially obstructred because the city does such a lousy job clearing them of fallen leaves, creating icy slush piles on lots of corners. I noticed in the last few weeks of November the street clearing operations involved plows collecting leaves, which makes sense, but plows are too blunt and bulky to ensure sewer drains are clear. Feels like the city would be so much nicer and cleaner if instead of relying solely* on huge trucks to keep things clean we outfitted workers with brooms and sticks to collect garbage, leaves, etc., and ensure drains are free and clear.

  Though the impression you get from the “brigades” that walk around downtown picking up 1/3 of the cigarette butts on sidewalks probably flies in the face of my idea.

• Meezly 13:29 on 2021-12-09 Permalink

  Don’t know if this image will display, but saw this very apropos cartoon in a Montreal FB page:
  https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/s600x600/247915713_10158230606881571_7306191534191007617_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=S4dFRdL_6YIAX9qIaJr&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=aaa9fbb3d5aba85902fb69d93055b6ff&oe=61B74D2C

• MarcG 13:53 on 2021-12-09 Permalink

  That comic is funny but I can’t help but say that the reality in my neighbourhood is it’s citizens shoveling out their cars who make huge obstructing piles on the sidewalks.

• mare 16:28 on 2021-12-09 Permalink

  The snow scrapers tried to clean the 3 to 5 cm thick layer of hard ice in the parking lane of my street last night. It was not only totally unnecessary, but it was very difficult so they put so much pressure on their scrapers that at almost every crack in the road they passed some tarmac came out. There are a lot of cracks because of the shoddy repairs after each replacement of a lead water pipe, so our street is now even more pothole-ridden than before.

  The little ice they managed to remove, together with the few cm of fresh snow, formed a pathetically small ridge before it was vacuumed up by the snowblower. A very unnecessary snow clearing operation, but everyone was going to be paid anyway, so they continued. Millions of dollars well spent.