{"id":4017,"date":"2009-02-09T23:27:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T04:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/02\/09\/montreal-monday-smart-card-facelift-snowplough-tragedy-and-a-windowless-wall\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T23:27:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T04:27:44","slug":"montreal-monday-smart-card-facelift-snowplough-tragedy-and-a-windowless-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/02\/09\/montreal-monday-smart-card-facelift-snowplough-tragedy-and-a-windowless-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Monday: smart card facelift, snowplough tragedy, and a windowless wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/3-opus-cards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\">Spacing Montr&eacute;al<\/a>. We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&bull; A website has launched to aid Montreal transit users who want to personalize and beautify the city&#8217;s new Opus smart cards. Alannah Heffez writes of the initiative: &#8220;Perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/02\/09\/diy-opus-design\/\">DIY transit cards<\/a> capture the creative spirit of Montreal better than a design competition ever could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Jacob Larsen took a minute to reflect and ask a tough question after three people were <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/02\/03\/more-deaths-by-snow-plow-a-sad-day-in-montreal\/\">killed in snow-clearing accidents<\/a> last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; A post highlighting the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/02\/04\/justice-may-be-blind-but-this-is-going-too-far\/\">lack of windows<\/a> on one side of the Quebec Superior Court building prompted a flurry of comments. (Not to brag or anything, but we have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/toronto_images\/pages4\/cityhall.htm\">way windowlesser building<\/a> here in Toronto.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montr&eacute;al. We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. &bull; A website has launched to aid Montreal transit users who want to personalize and beautify the city&#8217;s new Opus<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/02\/09\/montreal-monday-smart-card-facelift-snowplough-tragedy-and-a-windowless-wall\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Montreal Monday: smart card facelift, snowplough tragedy, and a windowless wall&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[11347,38,11435,11436,3860,19],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-jacob-larsen","tag-montreal","tag-quebec-superior-court","tag-quebec-superior-court-building","tag-smart-card","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Montreal Monday: smart card facelift, snowplough tragedy, and a windowless wall - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/02\/09\/montreal-monday-smart-card-facelift-snowplough-tragedy-and-a-windowless-wall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Montreal Monday: smart card facelift, snowplough tragedy, and a windowless wall - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montr&eacute;al. 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