TVA laid out some numbers it claims represent the decline in bus services over the last four years, going back a year before we ever heard the word “covid”.
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Kate
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Kate
There is now a phone number where you can call in vehicles that block bike paths – in French it sounds harsher, you can denounce them!
Blork
Added to my contacts.
mare
On speed dial.
I wish I could text and send a photo, I would make a shortcut for that on my Home Screen. And of course reporting should get you a bounty, a percentage of the fines. I could live with 20%. (They had planned that in NYC, but don’t know if that has really materialized yet.)
Ephraim
@mare – Revenu Quebec can’t manage to do that properly, you expect that the police could?
Ian
Considering there’s been an SPVM rat line for all parking violations for several years now it seems like greenwashing to pretend this is a bike-friendly intiative … especially as the cops still won’t ticket delivery vehicles or contractors, or themselves for that matter. It also won’t stop people from the (perfectly legal) maneuver of double parking in the bike lanes with their hazard lights on, which I see WAY more often than simply parking in a bike lane.
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Kate
Université de Montréal has a falcon nestbox on the tower, and you can see it on camera. Here’s the direct link thanks to reader carswell.
Update Sunday: the babies are hatching.
dhomas
I bet it speaks a mix of English and French. Shameful.
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Kate
Four young men in a car were injured Friday afternoon when their vehicle hit a tree and destroyed a bus shelter. Luckily, no one was waiting for the bus at that moment; no news how the tree is doing.
Freddy G
The driver may die. At 21. Maybe wait 48h before worrying about the tree. Also, hire over 13 to write your socials.
Kate
Yes sir.
shawn
Wait, Kate isn’t over 13?
Kate
She’s too busy writing socials to reply.
bumper carz
“The driver may die.”
Historically, it is mostly wars that casually threaten young people’s lives. Is the banalised use of the car itself a kind of “war” against our communities and your youth?
Kate
No. If anything, especially in the U.S. but also here, giving very young people cars is considered a benefit, as they will now have more “freedom” to do what they like.
As a society it’s obvious we’re quite happy to lose thousands of people to car deaths every year, besides those who survive crashes with permanent disabilities. Cars are a kind of man‑made pandemic.
Ian
While I feel bad for the friends and family of said 21 year old, it’s not exactly a tragedy to die as a result of your own (incredibly) reckless driving…
There’s a big difference between innocent death by misadventure and death from doing something well known to be dangerous to yourself and others that is incidentally super illegal that would result in an automatic license suspension and vehicle seizure in any case. In some places they take photos of these kinds of accident scenes and put them up on billboards as a warning to others.
It’s like if somebody accidentally blows themselves and some buddies up while making a bomb for fun; sure it’s sad that people lost their lives but at least it was just them.
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Kate
A business on St-Denis near Crémazie was firebombed early Saturday.
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Kate
The fire out, inspectors will be working in Bon-Pasteur on Saturday to assess the damage caused in Friday morning’s fire. CBC talked to groups which have used spaces in the building and they’re devastated; likewise people who lived in parts of the building.
Ephraim
First question… did the have fire insurance on the building? Second question… was it insured at a high enough amount to be able to afford to rebuild, considering that it’s a historic building and it will have to be rebuilt. OR do you think this will sit empty for years because there is no money to rebuild because it would be cheaper to tear down?
shawn
I’m going go out on a limb here and say that there will definitely be money to rebuild because the provincial government is so focussed on preserving Quebec Catholic patrimonial structures.
John B
Sometimes it’s impossible to buy insurance for heritage buildings, because the replacement cost would be more or less infinity dollars, so there may not actually be insurance on the building.
Red 21:54 on 2023-05-27 Permalink
But, Legault needs to give his deputies a $30,000 pay increase
Ian 10:00 on 2023-05-29 Permalink
Hey now paying 19 year old cops a hundred grand each adds up too, you know.
What do you want, an ineffective, overpaid cop from the suburbs that hates Montreal on every corner, or reliable bus service? /s