The borough of St. Laurent is investing $2 million in pedestrian safety projects for 2021, starting this month, as part of its 10-year capital investment plan.
The projects include the installation of curb extensions, speed humps and curb radius reduction, as well as raised intersections and crossings at 38 different locations.
The cost is $2,003,740 for 2021, and is being paid for by the borough and the City of Montreal. Promoting safe walking on St. Laurent territory is one of the main concerns of our administration, as evidenced by the pedestrian master plan that we launched in September 2020, stated Mayor Alan DeSousa. That is why we are heavily investing in making pedestrian travel safer for St. Laurent residents and workers. We are proud to announce that in this regard, St. Laurent has never invested such an amount since it joined the City of Montreal in 2002.
Côte St. Luc
VOTE BY MAIL FOR 70+ PASSES, UMQ BLASTED: Côte St. Luc council voted, as have some other municipal councils, to enable voters 70 and older to vote by mail in this Novemberâs municipal election, as allowed by a new Quebec law Bill 85 and in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. All councillors seconded the motion. But Councillor Mike Cohen, who worked on the file, blasted the Union of Quebec Municipalities (UMQ), calling what he said was their near inaction âshameful. âTheyâre supposed to represent us,â the councillor said. âI tried to communicate with the president, who is the Mayor of some tiny little hamlet somewhere in Quebec and she did not really respond. They went to the National Assembly, they basically barely said a word, they didnât speak up. We wanted this to be available to anyone who wanted to vote by mail, because as we can see, more than a year ago, everyone thought the pandemic would be long over by then. If you look at
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Montreal-area residents may have felt the ground shake beneath us at three minutes after 7 a.m. Monday morning.
Vibrations from jackhammering? A passing dump truck? Construction season is, after all, in full swing and that’s pretty much starting time.
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Nope. This was the real deal: the earth actually shook from a tremblor centred north of Montreal that registered magnitude 3.9. It was felt far and wide across Southern Quebec.
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One of Montrealâs greatest strengths in managing its finances is that the province is always willing to bail it out.
That bit of irony is highlighted in the reports of all major credit rating agencies, whose opinions on Montrealâs debt risk directly influence the interest rate that lenders will charge the city on the billions of dollars it borrows for its ambitious infrastructure projects. The agencies also consider the strong Quebec economy, the cityâs willingness to cut costs when necessary and the cityâs reliance on property taxes as a stable revenue source as its other strengths.
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Montreal is ruling out opening up voting by mail to all seniors over 69, saying it doesn’t have enough time to make the necessary changes before the Nov. 7 municipal election.
“It’s impossible to hold a vote by mail on such a large scale in such a short time,” Projet Montréal house leader François Limoges said in city council Tuesday, after city clerk and returning officer Yves Saindon gave a presentation saying it wasn’t feasible to offer mail-in ballots to the city’s estimated 200,000 eligible voters who are 70 or over.
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