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I remembered to snap a pic of the “post graffiti cleanup” on the corner of Greene and St Antoine.  This is an update to a post back in June.

While I completely understand local resident’s desire to have a better say in the redevelopment of the Turcot exchange, there can be no doubt that this mass of gorgeous concrete is at the end of it’s useful life.
With giant holes appearing, overloaded trucks banned and a permanent state of panic laden repairs taking place, we […]

After the absurd use of water tankers dumping millions of litres (of potable water?) onto our parched asphalt as a form of cleansing, this pales in comparison.  Yet it still requires a look.
Poorly designed, poorly placed, poorly timed.  Just poor.   Or better yet…pour.

-30C and windy, these plants were probably still thirsty after today’s wastage.

Limited […]

How do you paint a building the size of Imperial Lofts phase 2?  Well, like this of course.

Wait for the sunny days, fill your lift with buckets of paint and some rollers… and start painting.  One guy, one standard roller, one coat.  No primer.  I’ll update this post if they drop a second coat on […]

With all this talk about new tramways running around town, I was wondering what all that infrastructure would cost (some say 44Million/km, some say 80).
On my end I think it’s a complete waste of money to build:

the tracks
the nasty power lines
the special track clearing machines for snow and ice
the service depots for trams
the ’stations’
and ummm […]

May 26th 2008…  a crew of four unionized City of Montreal workers arrive to finally repaint our intersection (and every other one in the borough).

These stop lines and cross walks will not be visible past the end of September.

This puts residents, often with babies, children and dogs in tow at a serious risk for 7 […]

The city created this crosswalk last fall on the corner of Atwater and St-Antoine.  It is by far the coolest crosswalk I’ve seen to date.  I didn’t witness the process, but it from I can tell the asphalt has been ground down in the cobblestone pattern shown to a depth of around 5mm then the […]

April 30th 2008… the street has been swept for the first time. Ahhhh asphalt, how I’ve missed your tarry goodness.  co

Hi there my friends, just transferring my site to a new host and more dramatically switching content servers from Movable Type to Wordpress. In a nutshell that means the site might appear: ugly, bloated, broken and downright unruly. Please be a little patient. I’ll be staying up late with a crying […]