Even though many streets are still piled with snow, parking tickets have been handed out. The city’s lightening up on some parking rules but tickets are still being issued. TVA got an influencer to say he doesn’t like it.
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Kate
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Kate
Ukrainians and allies marked the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of their homeland with a march downtown on Sunday.
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Kate
Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital closed half its emergency stretchers on the weekend because of staff shortages.
Meanwhile, Quebec government budget tightening means that necessary work on school buildings is being put off indefinitely – i.e., making it some other administration’s problem in the future.
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Kate
Garbage pickup is to resume Monday. This piece says nothing about recycling or composting pickup.
Update: La Presse mentions all three pickups are resuming.
Joey
I was going to chalk this up to CTV being, once again, fuzzy in their reporting, but I noticed that CBC and the Gazette are similarly vague. The city website only says “Waste collections will resume during the week of February 24.” I’m sure they use the term waste to include garbage, material for recycling and compost, but some prevision wouldn’t hurt. There was a a time, not too long ago, when even – especially? – vaguely written small-ticket items like this would inspire journalists to pick up the phone and seek clarification; now it’s de rigueur to just reproduce whatever social media post has gone out and pass it off as journalism.
Kate
People will just have to decide what makes sense. There’s still a ridge of snow as tall as I am between my sidewalk and the street. I normally put out my composting bin Monday night, but unless a miracle happens meantime, I’d have to climb the ridge and perch it on top. So, I think I’ll wait another week.
walkerp
I have a feeling the mandate is just pick up as much stuff as possible to get it off the streets so snow clearing can continue, which is why the city is vague about it. Though point taken about some journalist calling and getting a clarification.
I imagine they are feeling the pressure as we are going above zero for the next couple days then back into the deep-freeze. Not going to be fun if the sidewalk goat trails are all turned into ice!
Nicholas
On the city website they mention food waste and green waste as terms, and if you click on Français they say “Les collectes reprennent cette semaine” in plural and refer to collectes for everything on that page, including recycling and compost. So I think it’s just a translation that causes some confusion because a bunch of people up and down the chain sort of breezed through writing, and transcribing, this until Kate thought to ask the question.
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Kate
CBC has a piece on homelessness in the metro, as consultations continue over what can be done.
jeather
I was using the metro a lot this weekend and I was surprised at how little I saw of it, actually. All the news made me expect a lot more.
Joey 11:27 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
The fact that 85% of tickets involved cars being towed suggests that the city really is indeed focusing on getting cars out of the way of snow removal operations – sucks for drivers, but too bad so sad. Park your car indoors at Marche Centrale or the Big O or god knows wherever for a few days, or consider the ticket the cost of doing business and move on with your life. Before the diagonal parking story was a CTV piece it was a big thread on a FB group.
roberto 14:17 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
They’re clearly some tolerance about the parking rule “not more than 30 centimetres from the near edge of the roadway”. Somtimes the snow bank takes up much more of the roadway. It’s obviously tolerated when you’re not impeding into the passage of vehicles on the roadway. I’d assume the diagonal parking would be treated with the same tolerance. Parking diagonally can make it easier to get in/out of those treacherous snow bank spots.
Joey 15:05 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
I think in this particular situation the problem was that Hutchison is a two-way street – the big snowbanks combined with the cars on both sides of the street being parked diagonally (actually closer to 90 degrees than 45, based on the photos) meant that there was no way that anywhere close to two lanes of traffic remained open.
roberto 15:22 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
“we’re not blocking the way” . But in this case many actually are. There’s nothing exceptional about a snow storm in Montreal.
In the case of Hutchison, as a two-way street, using one of those lanes for “parking” converting it to a one way street is completely unnaceptable. It’s not even about “diagonal parking” anymore. Left parked cars are facing the wrong way & in the MIDDLE of the street!
jeather 16:32 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
As far as I saw, of a lot of diagonally parked cars, as long as there was a proper lane per direction, they let it all go — St-Antoine lost an entire lane that way until it was cleared, but it did have one slightly extra wide lane left. They ticketed cars that actually blocked traffic.
Kevin 20:47 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
Roberto
Philippe Sabourin told drivers repeatedly this winter to park at least 30 cm from the curb so sidewalk plows could pass.
Ian 22:42 on 2025-02-25 Permalink
I live on Hutchison, and yeah it was down to one lane more or less after Sunday… with or without parked cars. The plows were only making a single lane. TBH I was surprised the city didn’t make it one way until it was cleared, i even saw cop cars block each other once, trying to pass in a narrow spot at a bulb out. A few xars were parked badly but most of us dug in as best we could . Most of the problem was simply snow nit being pushed aside. The sidewalks never got cleared either.