A wave of thaw is expected on Friday and through the weekend.
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Kate
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Kate
Some clinics that were preparing to close in response to Bill 2 may yet stay open now that some changes have been made.
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Kate
The Lafontaine tunnel is flooded on the northbound side Wednesday after a pump broke down.
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Kate
The season’s third snow removal campaign will begin Wednesday evening, and a good thing too, since it’s predicted to get warmer Friday through the weekend, and the less slush the better.
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Kate
There have been a lot of complaints about snow removal this season, after only two storms.
We discussed the Info-Neige app a couple of weeks ago. It isn’t surprising that some of us thought it was city‑funded because it was, but it isn’t any more. CityNews says it now costs $4.99 for six months.
Joey
Lot of parallels to the ARTM decision to eschew Transit (best public transit app in the world that happens to be Montreal-based) for Chrono, which sucks.
Clee
Snow removal is on 311 Montréal now
Joey
@Clee the story explains that users find the functionality on 311 to be worse than on Info-Neige (incorrect info, late notifications, etc). Again, parallels to Transit/Chrono…
dhomas
The 311 app “works”, but barely. It’s also a very busy app, with lots of stuff you can do in it. The Info-Neiges app does one thing and does it well. It’s a shame the city didn’t buy the app outright. But I ain’t paying for it, sorry.
Also, I mainly use Transit, but I still need to Chrono app to refill my Opus or use the Virtual Opus.
jeather
I haven’t paid and I can see the map. That said, I don’t find it any better than the city app, and in particular I am near the part of St-Antoine that is half Mtl, half Westmount, and it does not show me that street. Also, it’s 3.99/month or 9.99 a year, but it isn’t clear to me what you get for that.
Question: is it the same as infoneige.ca, which continues to send notifications?
Andrew Aitken
TVA and Citynews say $4.99/6 months, but in the app I still see the prices from Kate’s first post, $9.99/year or $3.99/month.
Good news though! Info-Neige Westmount is a separate app and is still free.
Em
The snow removal in my borough has been weird this year. Recently, signs put up on one side for several days with nobody coming by, then they were suddenly put up on the opposite side without removing the first. So a bunch of people who thought they were correctly parked were towed during the day, and drivers were technically required to move their cars at exactly 7 p.m.
I’ve always just looked at the Info Neige map online. Still seems accessible so far.
Ian
I find it interesting that the Info-Neige app only cost the city 75k a year. Talk about cheaping out.
https://montreal.citynews.ca/2026/01/07/info-neige-app-paid-city-of-montreal/I mean, seriously, 75k out of the city budget is such small beans. Think of how much time & money and related resource costs the city spends on towing, alone. Even if you don’t drive, having more efficient snow removal operatons saves us all money. We have budget for a cop spend higher than any other city in the country, over 821 million, with more cops per capita than cities with higher crime rates like Vancouver or Edmonton, but we can’t afford 75k for an actually useful software license that benefits thw whole city? Va péter dans les fleurs.
Tim
If the city only paid $75k a year for that service, it was drastically underpriced. I totally agree with Ian that app usage would offer the city savings, I would guesstimate in the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars. There are no details as to why the contract was not renewed. The service providers probably are asking for more. They only need 15k users to pay $5 for them to recoup $75.
Joey
I thought that Elon trying to turn Twitter in to X and becoming an ‘everything app’ (including, Jesus Christ, banking) would have been the nail in the coffin for this ridiculous concept, but I guess not. All the stuff that is finally happening with Opus (reload via app, virtual cards, etc.) could have been implemented years ago if the ARTM hadn’t tried to build Concerto, an everything platform including the STM, STL, Bixi, Communauto, etc. Just completely bonkers ridiculous, especially considering the Transit already does most of this stuff for free.
Why pay $75K to renew the license for the app that works just fine when you can badly integrate it into another app that people don’t know about all the while the initial app is still installed on everyone’s phone and is now asking for subscriptions. Hard to imagine a more incompetent set of decisions here.
jeather
I’d probably be willing to pay 3-4 a year for this app indefinitely, but I’m not interested at the current price.
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