With the snow removal patrollers
Snow removal workers are under pressure to work fast, and rewarded for doing so. So it’s not surprising that they cut corners on safety and traffic rules. But they are driving large, dangerous pieces of equipment. La Presse accompanied a patrol that keeps an eye on the process and fines the more egregious offenders.
Joey 11:19 on 2023-03-06 Permalink
Today I learned that Decelles intersects with Cote-Des-Neiges…
Kate 12:17 on 2023-03-06 Permalink
It does, just south of Queen Mary near the secondary gate to Notre‑Dame‑des‑Neiges.
jeather 12:44 on 2023-03-06 Permalink
TIL that saying “far west” is acceptable French, but though all the quotes from people say “trucks”, the article calls them camions.
EmilyG 12:58 on 2023-03-06 Permalink
Also, I think there’s more than one street in Montreal called Decelles.
Kate 13:33 on 2023-03-06 Permalink
Far West is well established French, coming from magazines and movies, although it’s interesting that it isn’t an expression in English, where we’d probably say Wild West.
EmilyG, there’s a Decelles in CDN, and another in St‑Laurent.
jeather 13:37 on 2023-03-06 Permalink
Yes I also found that link, I just hadn’t seen or perhaps noticed it before (the meaning is, after all, transparent). Though it’s not clear when the old literal use (atttested in 1871!) translated to the figurative one. I’d think that the literal use is now Old West and figurative is Wild West, in English.
Joey 14:36 on 2023-03-06 Permalink
LOL of course it does… my bad!
Mitchell 08:00 on 2023-03-07 Permalink
“cut corners on safety and traffic rules” — so my experience wasn’t unique. I was literally chased by a chenillette one day. I was walking down the snow-filled sidewalk when it turned the corner — and kept coming. It wasn’t that it couldn’t see me, because I was far enough away that it could. Because of the snow banks, I couldn’t just jump into the street. So I had to run back up the half block or so to the next intersection to get out of the way.
CE 09:59 on 2023-03-07 Permalink
I once saw them racing, one on the sidewalk on each side of the street. I had to jump into a snowbank because the one on my side was losing the race and seemed to have no intention of slowing down.