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Construction sites in Montreal in 2024 | The City promises far fewer “superfluous cones”
Despite a busy 2024 in construction, the number of unnecessary cones should considerably decrease next year, says Montreal, which estimates that the measures taken this spring to mitigate the impacts…
22% of orange cones in Montreal are “useless”
A new report from the Montreal Chamber of Commerce indicates that approximately one in five orange cones, omnipresent in the city’s downtown core, appear to be of no use. The…
Construction sites in Montreal | Cones in abundance that bear fruit
The proliferation of orange cones in the streets of Montreal may be angering motorists, but the numerous projects in recent years seem to be gradually bearing fruit. The City is…
A Backstreet Boy makes fun of orange cones in Montreal
The omnipresence of orange cones in Montreal caught the attention of none other than American singer AJ McLean, member of the group Backstreet Boys (you know, the one who always…
Cones, trucks, blocked entrance: he says he lost sales of $150,000 because of the MTQ
Scattered cones, trucks in the road, blocked entrances on all sides… A Lanaudière pool seller is angry because access to his business was blocked at the worst time of the…
Montreal, city of a hundred cones
We were all taken aback, most recently, when Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transportation and Mobility, Ms.me Geneviève Guilbault, as well as the Mayor of Montreal, Mme Valérie Plante,…
Hindrances in Montreal | Quebec wants to end the reign of useless cones
No more abandoned cones? The Minister of Transport, Geneviève Guilbault, wants to believe so. Quebec will now pick up orange cones after 72 hours of inactivity on a construction site,…
Quebec promises to clean up its orange cones in Montreal
As of June, the orange cones will have to be smaller in size and they will have to be removed within 72 hours after the end of the construction sites…
Your quasi-permanent cones | The Press
After the revelations of The Press on the presence of cones for at least 16 years along the entrances to the Ville-Marie tunnel1, in downtown Montreal, many of you have…
Cones present for 16 years | Guilbault orders a “household”
Quebec’s Minister of Transport, Geneviève Guilbault, has ordered her troops “to clean up” her cones left in downtown Montreal for at least 16 years. Posted at 10:51 a.m. Updated at…
Number of orange cones | Montreal and the Ministry of Transport in the dark
The cones are everywhere, but we do not really know their number. The Ministry of Transport (MTQ) and the City of Montreal do not know so far how many orange…
Orange cones in downtown Montreal | Omnipresent… and often “useless”
Are Montreal and its downtown “afflicted” by an overabundance of orange cones? The Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal (CCMM) believes so, and fears that the image of the metropolis…
the harvest of fir cones has begun
Posted on 09/28/2022 15:40 France 2 Article written by B.Veran, France 3 Montpellier, P.Brame – France 2 France Televisions The white fir cones are harvested on Wednesday, September 28. Transformed…
Rivière-des-Prairies: orange cones, but no work?
Residents of Rivière-des-Prairies have been fed up with seeing orange cones, parking restrictions and other construction signs near their homes for at least a month, when construction work would be…
The orange cones of health | The Press
There is no more living symbol of Quebec immobility than the display of orange cones. Sometimes to indicate works, often to divert from a risk linked to the deterioration of…
Orange cones in Montreal | Better fluidity this summer, promises the Plante administration
Despite criticism from the Auditor General (AG) of the City of Montreal about its poor management of construction sites, the Plante administration claims to have already begun to tackle the…
Orange, Payare and Bruckner cones
Rafael Payare conducted his first Bruckner symphony in Montreal on Tuesday, a Seventh interesting to comment on. We can speak of a fascinating failure or a promising disaster. What matters…
In a nutshell | Cones of a beautiful invariable orange
The French language is evolving at breakneck speed. Each week, our language advisor dissects the words and expressions that make the headlines or give us a hard time. Posted on…
Create figurines and animals made of pine cones at the media library of the Prehistory Interpretation Center
A public reception center dedicated to Prehistory The Prehistory Interpretation Center is a 3,000 m2 reception structure. This building, dedicated to serving all audiences, revolves around three main areas: information,…