It’s spring, the city is filthy
While La Presse has a piece saying the mayor is promising a quick spring cleanup, TVA leans on the city’s filth being worse than it’s ever been.
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MarcG 08:35 on 2025-03-21 Permalink
I walked down St-Denis last weekend and it was a horror show, and it’s the same thing now in the riverside park in Verdun after the snow has mostly melted. I assume the cause was the massive snow storm and week of no garbage pickup that not everyone followed.
walkerp 08:46 on 2025-03-21 Permalink
It is a particularly messy spring with the Monday and Thursday pick-ups both getting blocked by those two storms and then no pick-ups the week after. On the other hand, the sudden thaw allows for a quicker and earlier clean-up. I did my block last week and to my great surprise, the always filthy apartment buildings on either side, somebody also did a clean-up in front! It wasn’t the best job but as this has never happened before, I was very pleased.
As a west coaster, the culture in the east of people not cleaning up around their places and simply depending on the city to do it (and the culture of media whining about the mess and lack of city response) is baffling to me.