Traffic / Circulation
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The Parking Lot Tax
Surface parking lots in downtown Montreal. As I mentioned in my post last week about the 2010 City of Montreal budget, one of the new measures it includes...
By Devin Alfaro -
Free parking for non-residents to end in Plateau
The newly elected Projet-Montréal borough council in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal have indicated that they plan to phase out free parking spaces in favour of...
By Chris Erb -
Greenwashing for the masses: The Premier’s message on the eve of Copenhagen
A screenshot from the Government’s website on Quebec’s position at the Copenhagen climate talks Premier Jean Charest is spreading the gospel...
By Jacob Larsen -
Car sharing in the city
This year marks the 15th anniversary of Montreal-based car share service Communauto. Being the oldest network of its kind in North America, Communauto has...
By Adam Bemma -
Cyclist evades death after being struck by delivery truck on St. Laurent
Photo: Patrick Sanfaçon, La Presse This morning, around 9am, a 22-year old woman was pulled under a delivery truck and tangled up in the twisted metal of...
By Jacob Larsen -
Highways, health and the economy: Political winds on the Turcot may be changing
Opposition to the Turcot reconstruction project has climbed even farther up the ladder. La Presse reported that in a parliamentary committee on Wednesday...
By Jacob Larsen -
Turcot activists to Charest: Be coherent!
With the sun setting on the hazy evening commute home today, activists from the Conseil Régionale de l’Environnement (CRE) on the St. Jacques...
By Jacob Larsen -
St-Henri residents take their candidates for a walk
Have you ever wished that your local politicians could walk a mile in your shoes? That’s what group of St-Henri citizens achieved today when they...
By Alanah Heffez -
Dimanche démocratique : Montréal est en action
« Au lieu de donner à un politicien les clefs de la ville, on ferait mieux de changer les serrures. » – Doug Larson I smell an election coming on...
By Émile Thomas -
The Turcot is going to heat up
A dull roar of opposition to the MTQ’s Turcot plan has been rumbling through urban planning circles and neighbourhood groups since the Ministère de...
By Jacob Larsen -
Bikes and buses in traffic: What can Montreal learn from other cities?
Bicycles and buses in Montreal have a fairly intimate, and almost always antagonistic, relationship. This is not news to those who’ve used either a...
By Jacob Larsen -
Discontent over the Turcot grows stronger (and more political)
Source: MTQ Sitting in the over-heated community centre in St. Henri, hearing one presenter after another condemn the Turcot project, it became clear that...
By Jacob Larsen