The bodies of the two missing guys were hauled out of the freezing Back River today, along with the Acura they were driving in. It’s a sad end and a gloomy lesson about the possible consequences of a lapse in judgement, even in the most promising of lives.
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The STM held a technical briefing today in which it enumerated its arguments against changing the metro to steel wheels, which include having to install a new signalling system and dealing with damage from increased vibrations both in the tunnels and in the trains themselves.
The argument that the trains wouldn’t fit into the tunnels sounds a bit fishy to me. If you’re ordering up a brand new set of subway trains I’m pretty sure the engineering company comes and makes some measurements first.
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The Plateau’s Projet Montréal council plans to allow cafés along the Main and Mont-Royal to spread their terrasses into the street, so long as they pay “parking fees” for the spaces they use.
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Bodies have been located in a submerged car in the Rivière des Prairies, and the assumption is that they will be identified as Hugo Pereira and Vincent Lamoureux, although formal identification has not been made yet.
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The city is cancelling a tender for road work around the MUHC’s Glen site because Quebec’s sent things back to the drawing board with the construction consortiums.
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Preview of the Tiffany glass exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, opening this weekend.
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Mayors of Montreal and its suburbs have agreed on asking Quebec for a gas tax hike to pay for public transit projects at least until 2020.
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A look at what’s being built on the corner where Ben’s Deli once was.
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Half of Quebec’s artists choose to live in Montreal although most of them make but a modest living here. In fact, the Plateau, once the hotbed of artistic life here, is losing artistic cachet as artists leave its overpriced flats in favour of less trendy but more affordable neighbourhoods.
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The search for Hugo Pereira and Vincent Lamoureux has resumed this morning in the Rivière des Prairies near Pont Viau, as it looks like they may have ended up in the river.