Wednesday, February 27, 2008
- Ben's Deli is on the brink of demolition to clear space for a boutique-hotel complex. Some of the fittings now belong to the McCord Museum.
- Three environmental groups are fighting the extension of Highway 25 into a bridge to Laval. I can't find a specific link for the donation they mention, but the Conseil régional de l'environnement has an item on it. (I wish government departments (at all levels) and NGOs did not think it sufficient to put up PDF files of a lot of their content. Occasionally there's a good reason: the STM's big transit maps simply would not work as a gif or jpeg, for example. But the file on the environment site is plain text which could be turned into html in about a minute.)
- Mayors Tremblay and Vaillancourt are pleased with a provision in the federal budget that gives cities an ongoing cut of gasoline taxes, and also with money for public transit. But things are not so rosy at the provincial level.
- Thoughts about whether the Griffintown project could founder on hard economic times, leaving the entire area flattened like a giant Overdale project; the bitter offer of a Griffintown tenant who does not want to be forced out.
- There's a study afoot to reinstitute train service to Sherbrooke. I'm beginning to think the future may see our time as the beginning of the resurgence of rail transport.
- Possibility of a transit strike has been averted as the drivers' union votes 92% in favour of a new contract, whose details have not been made public.
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