Posted at 4:00 p.m.
Flowers
This event is the Christmas of cyclists in Quebec. This is our celebration, our party biking. It’s Formula 1 cycling.
Masterfully managed, unparalleled entertainment, a site of unequaled cleanliness.
Everything ensures that the Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec and Montréal (GPCQM) are a complete success.
I love going there and feeling the energy there.
Long live the GPCQM. And thank you for existing!
The pot
Our cities have a duty of rigor in the provision of services. In legal language, we say “result obligation”. As for the service of a bus line or the repair… of streets, the city must fulfill its commitments.
La Voie Camillien-Houde and Avenue du Mont-Royal, to name a few, are a disgrace and an insult to intelligence in the way and condition in which they were delivered to the organizers of the Grand Prix Cycliste from Montreal. I was embarrassed to walk the circuit and see the state of the pavement patched as if we literally wanted to laugh at people.
As long as patch 75% of the street, why not repave it completely.
Each year, it is as if we were waking up from an age-old hibernation, doing in the cheap and the unsustainable. We work by the small week and we don’t care, as much for the foremen, the managers as for the elected officials, the work is so shitty in its identification as in its execution.
Where is the validation of the purchase order before and after execution? Who comes to see the work on site? If you plug a hole, you throw a “wart” of mismatched asphalt into it, omitting to plug a neighboring hole two meters away. Who allows this stupidity of work performance?
It’s as if people who work purposely close their eyes at work, it’s so sloppy. And I’m not even kidding.
The City is sending us the message that we don’t care about the quality of workmanship. It puts me in a good mood to see that, helpless as a taxpayer paying thousands of dollars in property taxes annually.
At the City, we pride ourselves on making an REV, but we are unable to do what is necessary correctly for what already exists. Not to mention the fact that the City perpetually opens and reopens the streets after redoing them.
You do not believe me ? Go to the corner of Saint-Denis and Bélanger streets. We asphalt and, after, we reopen.
Go to the REV Lajeunesse and Berri: after asphalting, we reopen. And the holes are resurfaced all crooked.
You don’t believe me yet? The City had to repave the Cherrier track after making holes (due to lead?). This beautiful bike path is now rugged in places patched.
Good. It was a great day despite everything, but it’s insulting to see our City deliver such a mediocre course to the world’s cycling elite. I’m not talking about the Quebec Games or the Ahuntsic Pétanque Festival, I’m talking here about a world-renowned cycling race with the best riders in the world, here at home!
People should lose their job it’s so funny to the world. The delivery of road services in Montreal has not been up to par. It was laughable to offer such a route for an event such as the Montreal Cycling Grand Prix.
When the left hand doesn’t know what the other hand is doing…
No one is ever really responsible for anything in this town, that’s the problem.