Resident repairs potholes himself
Saad Tekiout, who owns a landscaping business, has taken to repairing potholes himself. But the city says it doesn’t want people doing this work voluntarily.
Also, note this: “Dans une déclaration écrite transmise à Radio-Canada, le cabinet de la mairesse affirme que « c’est décourageant pour tous les Montréalais de constater l’état dans lequel nos rues ont été laissées par l’ancienne administration.» Soraya, sweetie, we’re six months into your term. You can’t blame Valérie any more. You made promises about the state of the roads (and their cleanliness too) and now you’re finding out it’s not so easy to deliver. Blaming Projet now is a weak, weak move.
Ian 20:18 on 2026-04-27 Permalink
Valerie would have blamed Denis.
It’s a normal and reasonable thing to expect a one year transition…
Unless we are pretending that the problems with the roads started after the election.
To be real the roads are utter shit right now but letting PM off the hook is ridiculous.
Next spring, yeah, knives out.
Kate 20:32 on 2026-04-27 Permalink
I don’t remember Mayor Plante blaming the previous administration – at least, not in that way. There was a sense that they knew they were undertaking road repairs that had been neglected for a long time – other things, too, like the complex refit of city hall – but not with a particular taunt towards the Coderre era. Denis’s mistakes (like the entanglement with Formula E) didn’t need extra emphasis from Projet.
Ian 20:40 on 2026-04-27 Permalink
That’s very selective memory. PM definitely excused the proliferation of traffic cones and construction sites on the previosu administrations, but they totally blamed road surfacing on them. too. PM seemed to be perpetually incapable of taking responsibliity for any infrastructure problems, and absolutely blamed everythign either on previous administrations, Provincial funding, or a lack of vision on the part of the population – especially blaming all vehicular traffic on private ownership and recalcitrant businesss owners. It was a such a prediatble pattern that most people started ignoring it even in the media.
Besides, how many years were PM in power, again? How are these urban planning geniuses leaving a legacy of roads that turn into a moonscape in a mere 6 months?