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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.

Westmount needs a graffiti enema.

I love that sometimes I don’t need to wander far for a quick story…  here’s one.  Megafun productions across the way was having graffiti removed this morning.  Yes on June 24th.  Amazing.  Oh and the garbage crew did a run as well, trying to fool half the population who would have […]

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 […]

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

While still on the spring (summer?) cleanup of Montreal take a look at these two pix below.

Taken Sunday at the old port on the wide pedestrian walkway off de la Commune, filled with tourists and locals alike.  Eating, drinking and generally enjoying the spectacular sun filled day at the old port.
Two things are glaringly obvious […]

Number of days without street cleaning: 28
Hey Alan, where are the street cleaners? Maybe we should push the start date to May 1st for next year, or possibly June 1st?
The citizens of the area have done their part, our home fronts are clean and debris-free, now it’s your turn to get to work.
UPDATE: […]