“Everywhere you walk in Montreal, it’s disgusting,” thinks a citizen

Faced with the absence of snow cover in the metropolis, many citizens believe that the cleanliness of Montreal leaves something to be desired and that the City must take action to remedy the situation.

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“It’s not very clean. It’s very, very dirty. Everywhere you walk in Montreal, it’s disgusting,” said a citizen interviewed by TVA Nouvelles.

Paused during the winter season, should street cleaning operations take place all year round?

A publication from the general director of Montreal downtownGlenn Castanheira, on the social network X has relaunched the eternal debate on the presence of waste in the streets.

Fortunately, the City of Montreal is concerned about the situation of certain more problematic streets at the moment.

A cleaning blitz was even launched for a portion of Sainte-Catherine Street, from Berri Street to Papineau Avenue.

According to the City of Montreal, the municipal administration will not have the choice to adapt to a “context of climate change”.

Changing weather conditions are pushing the City to study new solutions, assures its administrative spokesperson, Philippe Sabourin.

“Should the cleanliness brigadiers be there twelve months a year? […] These are questions that are addressed to the City of Montreal, and we are looking at all the means that must be put in place to be able to adapt in a context where our winters and their changes are changing,” he says. -he.

The official opposition at Montreal city hall is imploring the city to add trash cans and collect them more often.

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