Marwah Rizqy is back, and she says she fired Geneviève Hinse because Hinse and Pablo Rodriguez were seeking ways to use legislature funds for partisan purposes, which is not allowed under parliamentary ethics rules.
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Kate
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Kate
The mayor has had two flat tires recently from potholes, and is promising action.
Bill
She should have ridden her bike…
Kevin
All I want is for the city’s road specifciatns to be improved.
On paper, Montreal’s roads are supposed to have a 1 m gravel foundation. I suspect in most cases that never actually happens, and I also suspect that the gravel is never packed and tamped down.By contrast, Vermont requires a hard-packed gravel base of just 40 cm for most roads.
Chris
If there’s one thing cyclists and motorists can agree on: potholes suck!
CE
I’ve watched the machines that fix potholes in the spring do their thing and I feel like they just barely do the job. The machine pours some hot asphalt into the hole and this weird little roller pops out and rolls over it a few things like a rolling pin and it’s on its way. The result is a lumpy pile of asphalt that usually isn’t level with the existing asphalt. It creates a road that’s a bit less bumpy than it was before and when the plows scrape it in the winter, some of the patch inevitably gets pulled up. You’ll eventually see streets where the asphalt seems to be more of these patches than the original asphalt.
When in New York, I noticed that when they repair a street, they usually cut out the hole and the area around it, repair the foundation, pour new asphalt, press it down properly with a steamroller, and seal the edges. NYC has very few potholes, especially compared to Montreal. I know their weather is much different than ours but the way each city deals with potholes must make an impact on the quality of streets.
Chris
CE, like many things in life: you can do it fast, or do it well. It’s hard to do something both fast and well. Both those pothole filling techniques are optimising for different things. If we have a million of them, fixing them fast is maybe better than doing them well. Those ejected from their bikes and those paying thousands to fix their cars probably agree. But of course it’s a tradeoff. And it seems we never get around to later re-fixing them properly.
steph
Yet it seems like Montreal does it slow and bad.
MarcG
The adage I’ve heard is: “Cheap, Fast, Good Quality – pick two”.
Joey
I thought the process CE described is how the city deals with the massive amount of urgent pothole repairs that pop up every spring (actually earlier, as we are seeing now), with the idea being that they’ll come back and properly fix a subset of them later on. All the mayor seems to care about is the immediate purchase of lots of machinery, makes you think. To Kevin’s critical point, why is it that the way we build out streets produce such worse potholes than cities with extremely similar climates. The mayor who solves this will be re-elected for life.
Chris
I remember listening to a podcast… ah here it is: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1419-this-is-montreal/episode/16064767-why-does-montreal-have-so-many-potholes
Chris
Also this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOOgJID6sac
jeather
That’s not really fair Steph because I believe we also do it expensively.
Joey
From the description of that YouTube video:
27:15 La corruption dans le béton
Can’t believe it took 27 minutes to get to corruption!
bob
“Slow, bad, expensive – pick three”
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Kate
An out-of-court settlement has been made so that La Tulipe can reopen as an entertainment venue. It’s been closed since 2024.
Joey
Was there ever any reporting on how the city came to mistakenly allow the owner to convert the dwelling into a residence? And what steps might have been taken to prevent that kind of thing from happening again? The cost of that error has got to be well past $500K so far…
Kate
I have not seen any explanation of the error.
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