Man mourns daughter killed on road
A man in St-Michel is mourning his daughter who was killed, as pedestrians tend to be, in an incident with a large truck. He’s been sitting for 22 days near the spot where she died. This was the news item when it happened. Residents had been warning of the street’s hazards and asking for traffic lights for some time.
DeWolf 10:22 on 2023-07-15 Permalink
“Depuis la mort de Dilan Caya, des mesures d’apaisement de la circulation ont été mises en place rue Bélair, et le Service de police de la Ville de Montréal a remis plus d’une centaine de constats d’infraction à des conducteurs de camion, a fait savoir le commandant Claude Lizotte, du poste de quartier 30, dans Saint-Michel.”
Too little, too late. It’s astonishing the driver hasn’t been charged with anything for running over a pedestrian in a crosswalk (!!). But in terms of the big picture, there are two parties at fault here: the borough administration, which should have been proactive in responding to citizen complaints, and the SPVM, which has essentially decided to give up on enforcing traffic rules unless something really bad happens.
Tim S. 10:30 on 2023-07-15 Permalink
Well, at least the city did a traffic study before deciding to do nothing.
Seriously, this is heartbreaking, for Caya obviously but for all of us in this city who see dangerous situations like this everywhere and are at our wits’ end about how to protect ourselves. Good for La Presse reporting on this, but it’s telling that a death and a 22 day vigil get only 1 measly follow-up article.
Joey 11:28 on 2023-07-15 Permalink
How many of these urgent, pleading emails have been received in, say, the past six months?
bumper carz 20:15 on 2023-07-15 Permalink
St-Michel, Park Ex, Montreal-Nord…it seems that some of the neighborhoods with the most young children are also the most dangerous neighborhoods to be a child in.