Metro’s website has just undergone a redesign, with an agreeable serif font for headlines now and more white space generally. At the moment, however, every link I have ever made to a Metro article is broken. I hope this problem gets fixed, but it’s not unheard of for media sites to break with their own history sometimes.
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Montreal’s Autumn Kelly has just given the Queen her second great-grandchild – although far be it from me to contradict the Ceeb, I don’t believe our Ms. Kelly is technically a princess, as the man she married is just called “Mr. Phillips”.
Saturday morning: I see the CBC changed their princess headline.
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The feds may be trying to take the opportunity of the replacement of the Champlain bridge to shake off the responsibility of owning and managing the Mercier and the Jacques-Cartier as well, a change that might bring in tolls to support those bridges.
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Marc
The Golden Gate Bridge is a fabulous example how why the bridges need tolls. They have a dedicated crew of folks who baby the thing. As soon as anything is wrong it fixed, properly, without delay.
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Clément
The problem I perceive is that I’m not sure private bridges will behave like the rest of the free market.
In the private sector, an owner is motivated to maintain its property because if it is run down, client (revenue) will go to another vendor. For example, if a telephone company neglects its network and customers start loosing calls, they may want to take their business elsewhere.
I guess that model probably works on roads, because there’s usually an alternative road available nearby. In fact, that was part of the motivation for toll roads in the 70′s. Highway 15 was a toll road because 117 was an alternative and highway 10 was also a toll road because 112 was an alternative (there were other motivations, of course).
However, if Mercier, Champlain and Jacques-Cartier all become toll bridges, commuters are left with few alternatives and the bridge owners have little motivation to upkeep the bridges as they are dealing with a very captive customer base.
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Raoul
Well the champlain and J-C had tolls for a long time. If thats what it takes to pay for a new bridge, why not? Its abit unnerving to be sitting on the RTL-45 and reading articles off your phone stating that engineers think the bridge is unsafe lol.
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A law student at the UdeM tried to persuade a judge to impose an injunction to end the student strike, but the judge wasn’t having it.
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Raoul
Basically the judge sided with the strikers because he knows the law student has a future even if he has to repeat a term. lol.
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Yikes. Early Friday morning a man slipped off a staircase in the Plateau and impaled his leg on an iron fence. Firefighters had to saw through metal bars to extract him.
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Raoul
Weird the CBC said he fell off a balcony this morning.
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Kate
Language crisis!
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William
gross
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Charles
Just like that scene on The Walking Dead…
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Clément
You’re on to something Charles. I think it’s our own version of the zombie apocalypse about to happen. A drunk guy walking down the streets attacking people using pieces of our landmark staircases. He approaches someone and says “Braaaaiiiiinnnnns”, to which the other guy responds :”Hey tabarnak, en français !”
Friday afternoond: Any reason to procrastinate…
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Kate
“Cerveaaaaaaaaux!”
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walkerp
Ouch.
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The Gazette’s Linda Gyulai is receiving spontaneous Twitter kudos this morning from other journalists for persisting in getting documents from the city showing the financial fiasco of the 2005 FINA aquatic competition. The city will be hosting the event again in 2014.
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Michel
If there’s one thing that can be said about Linda Gyulai, it’s that she’s an amazing researcher. The way she could dig up (in a good way) dirt about our elected officials is a thing of wonder.
I remember when she uncovered all the crap that Bourque was into in the 90s. I don’t read her anymore, because I don’t read the Gazette, but it’s nice to know that she’s continued in the same vein as she did at the Mirror.
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Here in France, many highways are private, and they are pristine. The tolls can be costly, but I don’t really see the disadvantage. Even the trucking industry will probably, in the long term, prefer to use fast, efficient highways that seldom break down then free, public highways that are dangerously neglected.
Of course I don’t know if there are other factors at play that would make this a less good option in Canada. I do know that the best highways in France are often very heavily used (more users = more revenue for the owner) so I presume privatizing the bridges would be a great start to generally improving the existing infrastructure on the island.