The brother of the man who died in Point St Charles Sunday was charged with assault Monday.
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Kate
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Kate
A garbage collector found a dead man in a trash bin Monday morning in Hochelaga.
Ephraim
What is wrong with people… you don’t put a dead man into a recycling bin… they go into the compost 😀
Kate
Reports have varied. Radio-Canada does say it was a recycling bin and CTV says police now think it was a homicide.
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Kate
Are we enjoying the cold front and the rain?
Dominic
Absolutely! Threw open all the windows and set the AC to “off” at 7AM this morning. Its lovely!
Meezly
Same! except the AC has been off since last night. A welcome respite.
jeather
I am lying on a couch with not one but TWO blankets and a book and an occasional cat.
Blork
I sure am, especially after the last two days. I don’t want it to linger, but it’s nice for a day or two.
H. John
I liked a tweet this morning from Toula Drimonis (@ToulasTake):
“It went from 35C to fall.”
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Kate
The Craig pumping station under the Jacques‑Cartier bridge will be demolished starting Monday although there are plans to save parts of it. I’m hoping they keep the stone walls that show the city’s coat of arms and A1887D, which you can see in the black and white photo toward the end of the item.
It’s a pity this building was allowed to deteriorate so badly and no use was ever found for it.
The Journal writes that efforts will still be made to preserve the site.
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Kate
Some parts of the REV are almost too successful, with the St‑Denis section getting more than a million passages yearly. So there are calls to extend the network and put more routes on secondary streets.
DeWolf
The advantage of putting new REVs on main arteries is that they’re arteries for a reason – they go places. Because of Montreal’s street layout, secondary streets are often interrupted which will mean a lot of zig-zagging and detours.
Jean-Talon in particular is an ideal candidate for a REV, because it covers a huge distance from east to west, it follows the blue line for much of its length, it runs through many dense neighbourhoods, and it also serves up-and-coming areas like the Triangle that have a lot of new development. As it exists today, Jean-Talon is a horrific, unpleasant street for everyone – drivers included. Sherbrooke would also be fantastic for similar reasons, but I imagine it would be politically even more difficult, despite being quite a wide street with enough room for a bike path on each side.
All of that said, the professor is right that there also needs to be a focus on secondary streets. In particular, we need more traffic-calmed streets that have deviators that allow pedestrians and cyclists to continue while preventing through traffic. Clark has already been traffic-calmed to an extent, but somehow it still gets a lot of through traffic. If the city stepped up its game, put in more deviators and allowed two-way bike traffic on the entire stretch (it’s currently limited to the bit from Laurier to Rachel), it could become a viable north-south alternative to both St-Urbain and St-Denis.
JanSolo
I agree that the REV appears to be very successful at the moment. However, we’re in the height of summer. I worry that we’ll get a million passengers during the warm months and almost none at all during the winter.
jeleventybillionandone
There’s definitely been an effort to further extend the Clark street bike path south (in fact, at some point in 2020, bike route signage was added, parking signs updated, etc.) but for whatever reason this was quickly reversed in less than a week. There are still plans for an extension according to Alexander Norris, but whatever caused the signage changed to be reversed I guess is still a barrier to be overcome.
DeWolf
You can see the counts for the REV St-Denis here: https://data.eco-counter.com/public2/?id=300016032
In January 2022, most days saw 200-400 passages, and that was in a lockdown with a curfew. That’s about 10-20 times less than in summer, but the cost of maintaining seasonal bike paths without the benefits of traffic calming and greening far outweighs the cost of maintaining a year-round path even if usage is low in the dead of winter.
Orr
@Dewolf: Bellechasse has a rev and it parallels Jean-Talon. I use it all the time. I like that it’s not a mega-busy street like JT or St-Denis. REV map shows another REV (REV phase 2 type thing, not quite sure exactly where) a bit to the north that extends farther east & west than Bellechasse does. Definitely looking forward to this.
The benefit of cleaning a bike path network in winter is that when spring suddenly arrives, the bike path is ready for the cyclists. I’m a bit tired waiting for bike paths to be cleaned & reopened in May when spring weather & bike-as-transportation season started at end of march.
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Kate
TVA says that the Olympic tower is fully occupied “for the first time” – although the tower was not originally conceived to be an office building. But it is now.
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Kate
Monday is seeing the aftermath of the cancellation of the Pride parade, with La Presse saying that the organizers simply forgot to hire security people – and the organization has admitted it. Media are reporting that a parade took place anyway and no untoward incidents were noted.
Mayor Plante said the city wasn’t informed and that she was disappointed and the SPVM tweeted that the cancellation was not their decision.
H. John
Mario Girard in La Presse gave a bit more detail:
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/chroniques/2022-08-08/defile-annule/une-erreur-qui-fait-mal.php
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