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  • It’s not about speed limits, it’s about the drivers’ perception of the road, where drivers will reduce their speeds on narrower, more chaotic streets.

    The posted speed limit only dictates the penalties, not the actual travel speed.

    Example: LaSalle, Montreal, there’s Saint-Patrick street by the canal that has 3 lanes on both sides, completely deserted, businesses on one side with a narrow concrete median. It’s posted as a 40. Everyone goes 70 because it’s a wide, uninterrupted stretch of road with great visibility and no obstacles, however the posted speed limit is there as large trucks drive in and out of nearby businesses.

    It should be reduced to 1 lane per side + turning lane in the middle, the side walls should be made wider to take up the rest of the street, and trees on the side to create a tunnel effect. Notre-Dame on the other side of the canal has a similar issue, but it isn’t as bad. There’s still one too many lanes, however.





  • Junkies will either shoot up at a safe drug consumption site next to a school, or they will do so alone, leaning against the schoolyard fence, and discarding their HBV infected needles all over the school yard, grassy areas and parking lots.

    Denying them help does not make them go away magically. And I speak from experience, when I was a kid in school, junkies would hide behind our school to shoot up at night to not get caught, and it was up to the school administration to pick up the sharps and other paraphernalia.

    I’d much rather they be given clean needles, a safe injection site, supervision, a sharps container and help to beat their addiction. Making them suffer just because you don’t like them makes them become a problem for everyone.