“Stop, which stop? I haven’t seen any”, said the driver who hit the pedestrian.
“I had sunlight in my eyes” (yeah, but the collision happened during the night).
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C’était le billboard du Royalmount qui aveuglait l’automobiliste durant la nuit!
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I noticed several of these installed near the intersection around École Lévis-Sauvé (across from Verdun station). Could it be for future speed cameras? I don’t think it’s traffic lights because they’re already installed
Most Probably traffic lights. Most probably they will be moving them like they did elsewhere (e.g. Saint-Denis).
For speed cameras, I think they are usually added to existing poles.
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C’est la base pour des lampadaires pour piétons (la moitié de la hauteur des lampadaires standards). Ils sont communs dans les quartiers de l’“ancien Montréal”, comme à Ville Émard et Côte Saint-Paul juste à côté, mais à Verdun il n’y en avait pas. On en installe sur De Verdun et sur de l’Église cette année.
Comme ceux-ci (rue Marc-Sauvalle, à Côte-Saint-Paul):
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Shortly after you say this, a vehicle today turned right on the new traffic signals, and I let him know we’re on Montréal. He said “oh the light doesn’t work” and I said “yes it does, you just have to wait a few seconds it’s not that hard.” So clearly without traffic cameras, especially around the schools here, motorists simply do not care because they know they can get away with it without any consequences.
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New TINY planters were added, they’re putting them in different places along the street and corners:
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On the bike path??
These ones are between the bike path that is very wide here, another I saw between the bike path and car lane, and I saw another where there isn’t a curb extension.
It’s very strange, I have a feeling these will be knocked over by cars, but hope they add something like this between the unprotected parts of the bike lane.
Strange stuff
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Le trottoir doit être élargi, c’est pourquoi la bande cyclable est démesurément large à cet endroit.
Les petits bacs devaient servir à élargir l’espace réservé aux piétons de façon transitoire. Mais leur positionnement m’intrigue. de ce qu’on m’avait expliqué ils devaient être plus éloignés du trottoir. Je vais m’informer.
Ajout : nos ingénieurs m’expliquent que la bande étant tellement large en attendant l’élargissement du trottoir que des automobilistes pourraient y passer. Les mini-bacs servent à réduire l’espace à moins de 2,10m pour les empêcher de le faire.
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il aurait fallu faire comme sur le REV Lajeunesse, où la peinture a été utilisée pour émuler un trottoir plus large. Je ne pense pas que le bac va avoir plus de bénéfices que de coûts.
Sadly, it seems we aren’t going for bollards in the intersections like the renders show. I placed in red where the bollards will really be:
I hope we could still at least put black flexible bollards, that can be flipped down if a vehicle crosses over it. It would greatly slow turning vehicles and allow them to more easily see when people are crossing.
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I’m a big BIG fan of bollards, but I think this is for the best on this corner. The black ones planned in the image would have sent turning cyclists flying.
Which bollard would’ve done that? The road is one way so the only way I can see someone on a bike running into it is if they went the wrong way.
I find the current one on the far left (shown in my image of the hole above) actually will make people turning right on bikes now go over the sidewalk, because if they turned after it they’d go into the car lane requiring a sharp turn (vs original plan they’d turn right where the bollard will be actually installed in red).
These ones:
I know, I live on Willibrord…
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Yes I see what you mean, I’m happy they’re going with bollards still at least and not ignoring them
Also related to all this work, they’re doing the plantings along all of rue de Verdun.
I noticed new places for bollards to be installed at rue Gordon, close to the older locations which is good (slightly closer to the sidewalks).
The workers doing plantings were asking me when the area in front of métro Verdun will be redone for them to add plantings there, I told them next year from my memory but I’m not 100% sure, if someone can confirm!
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