APRPR

Dear APRPR

Here are two Meadowbrook videos on the evolution of this important greenspace story in Montreal.

The first video is of the April 19th meeting at Montreal City Hall. It gives a good feeling of the ambience that night and the fundamental arguments.

Click here to access this first video.

The second video describes a press conference in Parc Maisonneuve on June 8th 2010 at which the mayor of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, Mr. François Croteau, and the mayor of Le Plateau, Mr. Luc Ferrandez, came together to demand that Montreal create a Meadowbrook Park for all montrealers.

Click here to access this second video

Cheers

Patrick Barnard

Mr. Avrom Shtern questions Mayor of Town of Mount Royal, (TMR), Vera Danyluk regarding AMT locomotive crash and safety measures as well as fire and security issues in the Mount Royal Tunnel.

Answers come from Mayoress Vera Danyluk, City of Montreal Mayor Tremblay and Mayor Dauphin of the Borough of Lachine who is also responsible for Island of Montreal Security.

This video is split into 2 parts.

Agglom 26 01 2010ADS_pt1.WMV – 8 min

Agglom 26 01 2010ADS_pt2.WMV – 3 min 49 sec

Interesting to recall also that TMR was designed, planned and built by the Canadian Northern Railway in a similar approach to Washington, DC.

Pierrefonds-Roxboro Residents

(a) The video starts by highlighting how millions of dollars that Montreal had set aside to purchase and protect Montreal’s Green Spaces may now be at risk of not being used to purchase these green spaces.

Residents can help by asking for new money – $41 million over the next 3 years to finance the Natural Spaces Program so that Montreal’s last natural spaces can be saved.

Please write to Mayor Gérald Tremblay and to Executive Committee Vice-chairman Alan DeSousa

(b) The main portion of the video presents the fascinating ideas of Richard Register and the Ecological City.

Here is the video’s URL:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgkMEej9E3E

Patrick Barnard

Divers vidéos sur des dossiers d’intérêt à Pierrefonds-Roxboro

Problèmes avec les trains de l’AMT

Vidéo -1: Problèmes AMT – Ligne Deux Montagnes

Vidéo -2: Problèmes AMT – Ligne Deux Montagnes

Vidéo -3: Problèmes AMT – Ligne Deux Montagnes

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Déneigement dans Roxboro hiver 2008-2009

Vidéo -1: Déneigement à Roxboro

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Un terrain humide – Lot 1 171 908 – à protéger

Vidéo -1: Terrrain humide à protéger Roxboro – Lot 1 171 908

16 mars 2009, 9:30 a.m.: À la séance extraordinaire du conseil de Pierrefonds-Roxboro, l’item 40.01 est retiré soudainement de l’ordre du jour. L’item 40.01 lisait « Renouvellement de l’imposition d’une réserve aux fins de parc sur lot 1 171 908 localisé sur l’écoterritoire des Rapides-du-Cheval-Blanc »

28 septembre 2009 : À cette réunion extraordinaire du conseil, la mairesse confirme que ce terrain appartient toujours au développeur et que le développeur serait libre de faire avec ce qu`il veut selon ce qui est permis par le zonage, le plan d’urbanisme et certaines contraintes des plaines inondables

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Terrain de soccer en gazon synthétique

Vidéo -1: Contreverses – les gazons synthétiques

Vidéo -2: Contreverses – les gazons synthétiques

Vidéo -3: Contreverses – les gazons synthétiques

Vidéo -4: Questions d’un parent au sujet du gazon synthétique

The Winter of 2007-2008 and Pedestrian Safety

Click here to load a Word document that presents a review of the hazardous conditions pedestrians had to face on Roxboro area roads

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Le Boulevard des Sources

NOTE: CBC Radio links below are presently not available

Le programme radio Daybreak, CBC (anglais), a une chronique Street Whys les jeudis matins à environ 6:40 a.m qui examine des aspects reliés au transport.

Dessous, des clips d’émissions passées au sujet des piétons sur le Blvd Des Sources:

Thursday October 25th 2007
The daily struggles of a pedestrian.  A Roxboro resident invites me on his daily walk to work.

Thursday November 1st 2007
Dollard-des-Ormeaux Mayor Edward Janiszewski responds

June 11th 2009
Some senior citizens in Dollard des Ormeaux would like a little more time to cross Boulevard des Sources. But the Mayor says twenty eight seconds is plenty of time to cross six lanes of traffic.  You can hear the whole story this week on Street Whys.

June 18th 2009
We return to Dollard des Ormeaux to speak to the police officer who sits on the traffic committee. He says it is possible to adjust the time on the pedestrian countdown clock and that it just might happen.