McGill metro station finally has an elevator.
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Kate
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Kate
Carbonleo, the developer of Royalmount, wants to add more residential units but TMR’s mayor is dead set against this, because traffic.
The projected cost of the new pedestrian walkway over Decarie between Royalmount and de la Savane metro station has doubled. It’s being built by Carbonleo, as a concession to the traffic thing, to demonstrate that they’re making the site more accessible to public transit.
carswell
TMR reportedly has some concerns about traffic — not so much on Décarie and the Met as in the TMR residential neighbourhoods near Royalmount — but is mainly concerned about the impact a large residential development would have on municipal infrastructure like the Town library, arena and recreation centre.
Kate
Then they should tell Carbonleo “you can add more residential units, but you need to add these public services as well”! Besides, has anyone talked about daycares, schools, clinics and so on?
Michael
We have one of the worst rental housing crisis right now and traffic is more important than getting 1000-2000 more rental units built?
Everything is NIMBYism.
JS
Plug your address and any of the likely entrances, eg Royden or the service road of the 40, into Google maps and click on driving routes to see just how inaccessible this will be to anyone not coming west along the 40, and even then.
Chris
If they are worried about traffic, just build housing units with *no parking*, interior or exterior. Then car owners just won’t choose that neighbourhood.
qatzelok
TMR. desits its baroque street grid, is built on the mid-20th Century bungalow-sprawl model, with all its commerce and activities concentrated in a few pods. And now it is complaining about traffic. This is typical of towns that are built this way. This model guarantees both traffic problems and isolation.
Perhaps the solution is to de-zone the residential parts to allow walkable commercial places, and densify the single-family-bungalow zones that really should only exist in off-island exurbs. If that.
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Kate
A legal aid group is fighting the eviction of that homeless camp under the Ville-Marie expressway. The transport ministry claims to need the space, but washes its hands of any responsibility for the people living there.
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Kate
Plateau borough is to debate the fate of the Van Horne warehouse Monday evening. Mathias Marchal has some statistics here about what nearby residents have said they would and wouldn’t like to see happen there.
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Kate
Grim tale here about an Anjou gang who drove two 19‑year‑old Montrealers to Toronto, where they tortured them in various ways for having “snitched” on them to a rival gang. Images ended up on social media.
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Kate
CBC has reported a missing man in connection with the drownings in Akwesasne last week, but it took reading the Guardian to see it spelled out that the missing Casey Oakes is wanted for people‑smuggling. Maybe for legal reasons, maybe for delicacy’s sake, our media are being careful about this aspect of the story.
Blork
I’m pretty sure the CBC Radio reports weren’t delicate about this, as this is not news to me. Or maybe I’m just unusually astute at putting 2+2 together.
Spi
I don’t think it needed to be spelled out, they’ve identified him as the owner of the boat and not presumed dead. Pretty easy to read between the lines there.
Em
Every single thing in that Guardian article had previously been reported by local outlets. They just put it in the headline.
Kate
Em, CBC radio just said for the first time, Tuesday April 4, that police think the missing man was “connected” to the incident.
Chris
CBC isn’t going to say anything bad about a Native person, unless they absolutely have to. I’m not saying they have a literal rule, just that it’s probably subconsciously internalized by their employees.
walkerp
That is stupid on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin. Just think through what you said there.
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Kate
A teenager was robbed at knifepoint last month near Villa‑Maria metro, and parents are worried given that the station sees an influx of students at particular times.
jeather
Of all the metro stations I used regularly, that’s always been the one I felt least safe in.
dwgs
This happens all too regularly and the kids don’t report it because the only thing worse than being robbed is being seen as a snitch, which will ensure endless further harassment. My teenagers wouldn’t go anywhere near Cote Vertu or Snowdon metros because there are gangs there who prey on other teens. Knives, batons and bear spray are common.
JP
The tips noted in the article as being sent from the school are kind of useless. It’s not always possible to go straight home or you might be going straight home and still encounter something…..it’s not always possible to travel with someone….the best advice is the one about telling someone and reporting. Bullies, thieves, and criminals rely on your silence. Don’t give them that. The one great thing about being an adult is I really don’t care about being a snitch. It’s not a bad word.
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Kate
Not sure what to make of this CTV report about an “unhoused” man who parks his camper van in the Village and gets tickets, and is suing the city over them.
Guylain Levasseur is not exactly a homeless man, as the headline says, if he has a camper and the means to distribute food to street people. Also, whether or not Levasseur is fully the altruistic person described in this piece, that still doesn’t give him carte blanche to park wherever he likes at all times. For once, I’d like to hear the police side of this story.
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Kate
A man was stabbed Sunday evening near Atwater metro. No arrests have been made.
A little later, shots were fired downtown, but no victims have turned up.
dhomas 00:20 on 2023-04-04 Permalink
It’s been accessible for a while already. You could take the elevator up from the metro level to the mezzanine, but you would need to go through the Eaton Centre to take their elevator to street level. The bad news is that they closed the tunnel from the metro dock directly to the Eaton Centre in order to put in the elevator.
Spi 08:44 on 2023-04-04 Permalink
Tunnel from the metro dock? Do you mean that corridor that used to lead from the turnstiles to the eaton center and Maisonneuve exit? It may have been closed in part for the installation of elevators but I’m fairly certain that it’s not permanently closed the connection to the McGill REM station is supposed to go through there. So it may remain closed for a while longer but reopen at some point.
dhomas 05:28 on 2023-04-05 Permalink
There was an exit that let you get from the “quai” of the metro directly into the bottom floor of the Eaton Center, where the food court is.
Here is the closest I could find online to a photo of it:
http://www.metrodemontreal.com/green/mcgill/eaton.jpg
Currently, that exit is closed. I’m not sure how that exit would get you to the REM, though.
GC 07:57 on 2023-04-05 Permalink
I’m not sure I ever knew that exit was there.
Nicholas 20:41 on 2023-04-05 Permalink
That tunnel access was very useful. Besides the Eaton’s Centre and places south, it was also the fastest way to the Roddick Gates.