Speed bumps that were added to the pedestrian section of Mont‑Royal Avenue last summer have been removed this year after Vélo Quebec pointed out that they were causing cyclist falls and injuries. The point is to slow cyclists down as they weave among pedestrians in the mixed‑use setting.
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Kate
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Kate
La Presse talked to a few folks with fond memories of the Peel Pub, but from the 1990s, not from recent years.
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Kate
The city is changing its parking app this month to the homebrewed application Mobicité. Let’s hope it works better than SAAQClic.
DavidH
I have used it twice already with no problem.
jeather
Ian
I’ve used it too, seems very much like the old system. No issues to speak of.
Ramsay
BTW the new app does not work with old android phones like my S10. You need Android 13
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Kate
CityNews looks at the issue of gawkers at Jarry Park, as discussed here recently.
There are several threads on this in reddit’s Montreal sub, including this one describing recent events:
Today I was at the pool in Jarry and witnessed 3 men that were absolutely not dressed to be in the pool get kicked out by security. They then proceeded to camp out at a hill outside of the pool area to get a view and then the security promptly kicked them out again!
I also noticed a heightened number of cops (cadets) patrolling the area during peak hours.
However, it’s been pointed out there, as here, that the men involved are not breaking any law, unless what they’re doing can be labelled loitering. But you’re supposed to loiter in parks. It’s what they’re for.
Joey
Presumably loitering anywhere other than in direct view of the pool doesn’t attract police attention.
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Kate
Radio-Canada cautions against swimming in the river, considering the fecal coliforms, pharmaceuticals and forever chemicals found in water samples.
DeWolf
To be more specific, the water quality is extremely variable depending on where you are. It looks like LaSalle, Verdun and the Old Port all have acceptable water quality, but it isn’t great in Pointe-aux-Trembles.
Lachine isn’t good either. Maybe it’s discharge from that polluted stream that runs through Dorval?
Orr
We signed up for the Fondation Rivières’ Grand Splash at the old port, and it won’t be held if there has been heavy rain in the previous two days and it’s raining now and the event is supposed to be held tomorrow. It has already been postponed from last week.
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Kate
The environment was on cartoonists’ minds this week, Chloé deploring Mark Carney’s Bill C‑5, now law, which enables the federal government to handwave environmental and regulatory protections to get projects done.Côté links homelessness and trash management in a single image, imagines Canada’s carbon footprint and illustrates one need for public transit.
Mark Carney gets an unwelcome Canada Day greeting from a neighbo[u]r. Later, Chapleau reacts to Carney’s cancellation of the digital services tax, as does Ygreck.
Trump continues to haunt our cartoonists, Chapleau giving him a monastic sidekick and Godin going all out.
Meanwhile Côté continues the theme of the precarity of Legault’s situation and Godin asks about the REM tracks.
jeather
I particularly liked the Robin Hood ones as well as the digital services tax — what an incredibly craven way to end it. (I have heard some discussion that it is not a good tax, I have not looked into this at all, but this was not the way to go.)
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Kate
The story of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue losing their grocery store has been in the news before, and discussed here, but now they have a new one, although it’s small.
Ian
I like the idea of a return to small grocery stores. Throw a dry goods general store into the mix and you’ve got how small neighbourhoods and villages worked before corporate chain stores sucked all the air out of the room.
Kate
Around here in Villeray, most needs can be met by shopping at a fruiterie (five within easy walking distance of chez blog), plus the pharmacies for cleaning supplies and occasionally Dollarama for random household gadgets. There’s also a topnotch butcher and several good bakeries. We only really miss having a fish and seafood specialist, but Jean‑Talon market isn’t far away.
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Kate
For a time in the mid 20th, the Mouvement Desjardins sparked some interesting architecture including a branch in Quebec City that resembles the Guggenheim Museum, and another, more familiar to Montrealers, on Notre‑Dame in St‑Henri – now for sale and with an uncertain future.
DeWolf
I was pretty delighted the first time I stumbled across that branch in Quebec City.
The one on Notre-Dame is heritage listed and its external appearance needs to be preserved. Given the shape of the building I imagine that limits any redevelopment opportunities. Then again it has a pretty big parking lot so there might be potential for something interesting.
Kate
It would make a nifty blog HQ if I had a couple of million dollars…
Ian 23:37 on 2025-07-06 Permalink
Ok fine but one thing is unclear… we’re there actually any accidents?
MarcG 07:37 on 2025-07-07 Permalink
I noticed there are a ton more bumps and even at least one speed radar sign on Wellington this summer.
nau 10:40 on 2025-07-07 Permalink
This statement is a bit strange: Quant aux dos d’âne problématiques retirés, « ils ont été réutilisés dans d’autres secteurs de la ville où on n’a pas le même achalandage piéton, donc ce n’est pas perdu », assure la conseillère Marianne Giguère. If they’ve moved them to places where there are fewer pedestrians, maybe they’re more worried that they’re a tripping hazard.
Nicholas 13:19 on 2025-07-07 Permalink
When you bike on Mont Royal any time it’s nice you can’t go fast because there are a million people. You can’t even bike those times, and when it’s a bit less you can bike slowly (also more likely to fall thanks to a bump when you’re moving slowly). (At night, of course, it’s fine.) So it could be that they put the bumps where there are fewer pedestrians and people can bike faster. Like how you may not need traffic calming for cars if it’s bumper to bumper, but do when there’s tons of extra space so that people can speed (happened a lot during covid, when crashes and speeding went way up because few people were on the normally clogged streets).
MarcG 07:31 on 2025-07-09 Permalink
Walking on Wellington yesterday I noticed that most of the speed bumps have been removed.