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Anyone else notice that about 30%+ of the cars on the streets of Montreal are still wearing their winter tires?  Lovely.

Dear Lazy people,
While you were forced into shodding your car with winter tires last fall, please take heed that while no one is forcing the reverse on you, it would seriously be in your best […]

Take one slightly over priced, OLED enabled, industrial designed keyboard by Art Lebedev.  (aka Optimus Maximus)

And juice it.   Voila, traffic light perfection.  Round be gone.  All the extra real estate available to meet any traffic planners wish list.

 Art Lebedev’s home.

Have youngins, will travel…for free.  Free is good.  Although someone will have to pay for the program and it’ll most likely be you the pass holder, but hey, it’s free.
In an effort to promote the use of public transportation, the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) is today launching […]

Japan sets its research and development community into motion.  Won’t be long now before we’re riding into space on a ribbon of tubes.
Follow link to Timesonline story.

While not quite supersized, it’s super cool.  Classified as a micro van, this Honda Acty is totally awesome.  The owner of Budget Drain has all his bases covered; niche service and fuel efficient work van and right-hand drive!!

They still manufacture this little wonders, although the new ones are a tad more tricked out.  How are […]

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 […]

Been a while since I’ve traveled on an expense account.  Hopping off the ‘rental car’ shuttle and searching for my name digitally splayed on a board in the middle of a giant parking lot.  Oooh nice, section BA8.  Walk on over and choose a four wheeled companion for the week.  Nope, don’t miss that a […]

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 […]

More news on Toyota’s upcoming game plan. From plug-in hybrid’s to more efficient and smaller internal combustion engines and perhaps fully electric micro cars. Check out the story on Autopia, here.

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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 […]

Favourite quote from this AP article.
And that means playing Russian roulette with the gas gauge.
People are trying to stretch a weeks worth of their gas budget and finding out the hard way that cars don’t roll very far without fuel.

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 […]