Ian has sent me a link to video of the demolition of 5990 Park Avenue, the building that’s caused such a lot of trouble.
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Kate
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Kate
La Presse’s Philippe Mercure dissects Soraya Martinez Ferrada’s promise to “audit bike paths” as a cynical ploy to attract the anti‑bike vote.
Joey
Is there a lot of anti-bike vote that won’t already reflexively vote for whoever is up against Luc Rabouin?
DeWolf
Martinez seems determined to replicate Coderre’s 2021 campaign even though he lost by more than 14 points. It’s bizarre. Even her Port-Royal bike path press conference was eerily reminiscent of Coderre’s press conference on Bellechasse where he promised to scrap the REV.
I thought Martinez declared herself to be “la mairesse du logement”? I just looked up her announcements on affordable housing and they leave a lot to be desired. Meanwhile, Rabouin is giving detailed radio interviews about how the city recently worked with a OBNL to convert 700 apartments in Côte-des-Neiges from the speculative market into non-profit housing.
Ian
Are Rabouin and/or Wong pro-bike, or status quo at this point? Rabouin has already said bikes won’t be his focus for transit, and he’s more interested in repositioning PM as pro-business.
Anyway Martinez Ferrada has already admitted to illegal practices as a landlord, she’s no tenant advocate, that’s for sure.
Joey
@Ian I think he’s both pro-bike and also pro-status-quo, i.e., he realizes that you don’t have to litigate ‘should cyclists be treated as equal citizens,’ you just keep going with your expansion of cycling infrastructure.
Ian
…except that he’s not, he explicitly said he doesn’t plan to expand cycling infrastructure, he is going to focus on bus lanes.
Joey
I don’t believe a Rabouin administration will stop things: https://montreal.ca/en/articles/ebn-montreals-express-bike-network-4666
DeWolf
He never said he won’t expand cycling infrastructure. He’s status quo in the sense that Montreal has a cycling master plan (first developed in 2019 according to public consultations FWIW) and under his administration it will roll out as planned.
Martinez wants to throw it out the window and start from scratch.
DeWolf
Here’s the updated version of that plan:
https://www.realisonsmtl.ca/44664/widgets/187740/documents/136199
Ian
Fair enough, though that doc seems to focus on Rosemont/ Petit-Patrie.
I’m a little surprised neither candidate has said anything about closing Chemin Remembeance. Or have they? I can’t find any statements that are current.
Joey
DeWolf linked to the Rosemont borough plan. My link was to the city’s website for bike infrastructure and is dated August 1, 2025. Regardless, the Rabouin admin will be the first, I hope, that will take for granted that permanent, year-round, comprehensive cycling infrastructure exists and requires the same planning, attention and upkeep as roads, sidewalks and transit.
DeWolf
Whoops, wrong link. I’ll have to find the right one later.
Remembrance is done so you must mean Camillien-Houde. I haven’t heard anything either. If I’m not mistaken the city has already issued a contract for an outside firm to come up with a design.
Personally, I’d like to know what happened to the self-driving bus the city was testing on St-Hubert and whether it could be used to provide transit service on a car-free Camillien-Houde.
Kate
The little Kéolis bus shown here? There was also a different one, I think, tested out in the Olympic park a few years earlier.
I wonder if any of these small driverless buses could handle the grade and the curves of the Camillien‑Houde.
l
No worries, I wasn’t trying to be persnickety. I did mean Camillien-Houde.
I was under the impression that the STM is totally not on board so far but I could be wrong.I’m actually looking forward to being able to walk around up there, I’m hoping the inevitable piste is clearly separated.
Nicholas
I really hope they don’t just add bus lanes, but make them good. Three hours ain’t gonna cut it. Right turn lanes at every block with cars waiting to turn right while blocking the bus stop also won’t work. A small queue jump white rectangle after the bus waited 60 seconds for a long light cycle? That’s a nope. Need some real integrated traffic circulation plans.
DeWolf
Exactly Nicolas. I wish the candidates were competing on who could deliver the best bus network.
Joey
If the “grand entrance” on the west side of the mountain is any indication, I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
Ian
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cyclist respect the stop signs on that side of the hill, even the one right by the police station. It does bode poorly for casual hikers interested in rock formations
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Kate
There was a big water main break in Longueuil Thursday morning followed by a boil water advisory.
Blork
Just a detail, but the BWA started Wednesday night; the Ville de Longueuil posted it around 8:00PM. They said it was because of a water main break but there was nothing mentioned about flooding. So either the break took 10-12 hours to become a flood, or both happened last night and the media is saying “Thursday morning” because that’s when they heard about it.
Blork
Wait a sec… OK these are two separate events. On Wednesday night there was a Boil Water Advisory issued for the Bord de l’eau area because of an apparent water main break BUT WITH NO FLOODING.
On Thursday morning there was a water main break four KM away, on Boul. Jacques-Cartier with flooding but NO BOIL WATER ADVISORY (at least not yet).
Kate
New headline: ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE IN LONGUEUIL
Janet
Hell and high water
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Kate
In November 2017, police arresting a Black man neglected to inform prison officials that he had said he needed his sickle‑cell medication. He died in custody. Then the policemen lied about it. Their suspension over this lie has just been overturned on a technicality: police are not obliged to answer questioning by the BEI on a criminal matter.
Ian
Well, great – that’s settled. Bloody hell.
Ian 16:58 on 2025-08-14 Permalink
I’m enjoying not looking out on a brick wall, at least. It was a very efficient teardown.
DeWolf 20:52 on 2025-08-14 Permalink
Didn’t realize you lived directly across from this Ian. Must have been quite the drama!
dhomas 07:55 on 2025-08-15 Permalink
Impressive how they could tear that down without damaging the adjacent buildings. Thanks for sharing! Just one thing, though:
https://vimeo.com/313458699
😉
Ian 09:01 on 2025-08-15 Permalink
It also prevents piracy 😉
One thing they did that I found interesting was to slice vertically down the outside wall with a giant mortar saw the day before, that’s why the wall breaks so cleanly in the second part of the clip.