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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 […]

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 […]

Norman better be sporting some protective headgear when he eventually returns to a redesigned square next year.  These pigeons are anxiously awaiting his home-coming.

We took part in Montreal’s Urban Ecology Centre sponsored event a few weeks ago and attended a few great workshops like:

Heat island effect and how to cool the city
Cote-St-Luc’s pilot (now going full steam ahead) compost program
Green roof design
Eco Habitation presentation on building greener

Part of the Heat island effect workshop involved a little tour of […]

There is much more to synchronizing traffic lights then getting cars to move faster through our road networks.   Montreal is in the (much overdue) process of rolling out a synched core with a projected completion of Q4 2008.
The impact isn’t trivial. Even changing the delay of lights by a few seconds could reduce road […]

When you pull up behind a line of 5 or more cars waiting to dump their refuse/recyclables at the local eco-centre, you have a gut reaction that at least one city service is working well for it’s population. In theory you could walk up, or even bike up with your goods, just bring a […]

Found another hidden gem in NDG (yes working there has proven quite fruitful) called ‘A Votre Santé’. The whole gamut of organic products from vitamins and baby care products, to cereals and cheese. Don’t let it’s tiny entrance fool you, it’s really huge inside with a wide and well selected choice of goodies.

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melting bike found near la cité.

Salvador Dali was here?

Our first batch of stickers for May’s monthly fix were obtained from our local Access Montreal office.  They were only allowed to give us one, but Veronik managed to snag 12 from the new admin.
One found a new home on our box.  No sac to date!!

Know thine enemy.

Our first batch.

there are two incredible magnolia trees in bloom on Vendome right now, but don’t you DARE park under them…

One of Alan DeSousa’s pet projects during his tenure on the council has been trying to improve air quality in Montreal.  I’m unaware of any legislative changes he has enacted to make this happen.  Have you?  Comment if you do.
With our first smog alert occurring earlier then ever before on the island things need to […]

Just a quick note on the final stages of the recyc-frigo program that my mom made use of last week.  They were extremely professional, measured all the doorways the old freezer had to pass through, took the door off the freezer and pulled that sucker out and loaded the truck in about 20 minutes.
She got […]