A saga of cones
La Presse’s Maxime Bergeron considers the ongoing presence of roadwork cones in town and promises made to orchestrate sites more efficiently, and concludes that the work’s got to be done. The city has a detailed map of sites, with dates, purpose, name of contractor and so on.
DeWolf 09:48 on 2024-05-21 Permalink
When I go through my old photos, it’s a bit of a surprise to see that there weren’t many as many orange cones around town, but there was certainly just as much construction. Instead you just had poorly demarcated worksites and random holes in the ground with maybe a single cone to warn passersby.
Here’s a photo I took in 2009 of workers building the concrete barrier that replaced the metal bollards (and which in turn was replaced by the nicely planted median we have today):
https://i.imgur.com/iZpZO4f.jpeg
Today you’d have a fence, cones, detour signs.
DeWolf 09:54 on 2024-05-21 Permalink
(The construction photo was from Rachel/St-Urbain, I forgot to add.)