Alanah Heffez has a nice photo of a piece of attractive new bike path running through the Quartier des Spectacles, but she also has some good questions about whether its surface will remain stable, whether it’s sufficiently demarcated from road and sidewalks (note the three pedestrians already using it in the distance) and what cyclists are meant to do when the area’s off limits to bikes, as it will be during a whole string of festivals every summer. She’s asking for responses.
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Twelve days ago a 17-year-old enacted a metaphor: he shot himself in the foot on a crowded bus in Lachine, learning the hard way that it’s not good sense to have a loaded firearm down your pants with the safety off.
Today, another teenager was seriously injured in Lasalle when he got trapped under a city bus turning a corner. He’s got lots of fractures and head injuries.
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For the first time since it opened, I think, the Grande Bibliothèque is changing its schedule, giving us an extra hour on weekends, but shutting completely on Mondays. I suspect some older folks will miss their Monday access to the periodicals area on the ground floor.
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A year’s experiment with other kinds of cultural programming not having exactly sparkled, Daniel Langlois is bringing back more film screenings to eXcentris.
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The city is sitting on an alternative Turcot plan that would avoid all expropriations, but is waiting for the right minute to unveil it.