City fails to make ten worst roads list
The CAA has compiled its annual list of the ten worst roads in Quebec and it doesn’t include a single Montreal road.
CTV also tells us about a new app that lets you report on potholes around town.
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thomas 12:55 on 2022-06-08 Permalink
I would be interested to see the raw numbers. I strongly suspect the Montreal vote distributed throughout the city making individual streets harder to stand out.
Ephraim 14:23 on 2022-06-08 Permalink
Can we have an app to report roads with no pothole… that would be a smaller list
mare 14:25 on 2022-06-08 Permalink
Since a few weeks I regularly ride with a bike cargo cart, and I’m up close and personal with a lot of ridges, bumps and potholes. According to this webpage I live in a pothole free zone, which is nice to know. I think it’s a great idea, but reporting road issues takes time, and if I want to interrupt my ride I’d rather use the official Montreal app for that, because that actually works. I have reported potholes, broken lights and fallen branches and they were usually fixed a few days later.
(My ‘record’ is reporting a clunking metal sound I heard during a wind storm, coming from the top of a 30m high light post next to a soccer field. I don’t know what they found during inspection but three weeks later all four giant light posts were removed and the soccer field is in the dark. I feel somewhat guilty.)
Here’s the page about the app, in case you don’t know about it.
https://montreal.ca/en/articles/montreal-resident-services-app-22485
It’s still available in English, if your phone’s OS is set to English. I don’t know how they’re going to comply with Bill 96 but soon they might make an update and the interface will switch to French 6 months after installation. Or they’ll just ignore reports in English.
Ian 17:52 on 2022-06-08 Permalink
I successfully got 3 big potholes filled within a week by calling 311. In English. I called mid-May.
DeWolf 20:05 on 2022-06-08 Permalink
I use the 311 app to report particularly egregious potholes (as well as other things) and they’re usually fixed within a day or two. It works very well. The one exception is a very strange, deep hole next to the curb near where I live that was marked as fixed but hasn’t actually been repaired. It was a pothole festival when I made the report so maybe they fixed something else by mistake. I’ll need to follow up.
I follow a bunch of city councillors on social media and one thing they always say is that the city can’t fix things it doesn’t know about… so 311 if there’s anything you want changed.
Kate 08:25 on 2022-06-09 Permalink
I just drop a line to my councillor, but I don’t overuse it.
MarcG 09:36 on 2022-06-09 Permalink
They renovated the kiddy park near my place in fall 2020 and part of the updates were loud plastic bongo drums (which are mostly played by parents trying to impress their kids) and what seems like a malfunctioning roller slide which sounds like a construction site. I wrote an email to 311 in July 2021 (and every few months since) and nothing has changed. I flyered my neighbours and put up posters around the block asking other people to call 311 if they found it irritating. The last response I got from the city gave me some hope, saying that the issue had been forwarded to the “Division des études techniques”.
Ephraim 10:14 on 2022-06-09 Permalink
We once had a large hole in the street and it just sat for so long that I put up a plaque. JdeMtl showed up to take a picture of the hole and the memorial plaque and voila… a few days later, fixed!