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Things fall apart

Posted By mont_vila On August 25, 2007 @ 3:20 am In Around Town, Business and Economy, News | Comments Disabled

From today’s Montreal Gazette [1]:

Engineers, firefighters and city officials were at a loss today to explain how a seven-metre-long fissure opened in the city’s underground.

Call me cynical, but maybe it has something to do with the fact that the city cares more about beautification projects [2], cleanliness campaigns [3], and jaywalking crackdowns [4] than its goddamn infrastructure. Morons…


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[1] Montreal Gazette: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=bf4d283a-01ae-4b93-a437-cf8704ceae66&k=91871

[2] beautification projects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartier_international_de_Montr%C3%A9al

[3] cleanliness campaigns: http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=2217,2848983&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

[4] jaywalking crackdowns: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060507/Montreal_jaywalking060507/20060507?hub=TopStories

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