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@StephenRees@mas.to
2025-11-27 18:41:02

From Taras Gresco
Automatic for the People
A Ride on the First Fully-Functioning Line of the REM, Montreal's New Light Metro
#Montreal has a new "light metro" links to the Mount-Royal Tunnel, at 5 kms the third longest tunnel in Canada. Built by the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) between 1911 and 1918, it cuts through Mont-Royal. Trains, which were perforce electric, be…

The view from the front of the train. Since there is no driver, passengers get the opportunity for a forward view
@sean@scoat.es
2025-10-23 20:21:50

The event page for @… 's Enshittification book tour stop in #Montreal links to Facebook for full details…
The irony of this is not lost on me.
(See you there, tomorrow, local friends?)

Cory Doctorow launches Enshittification | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
Drawn & Quarterly is an internationally renowned publisher of the world's best cartoonists.

@jerome@jasette.facil.services
2025-11-30 01:08:24

Prolongement de la ligne bleue… sans les portes de protection
#montreal
lapresse.ca/actualit…

Prolongement de la ligne bleue | Tout pour accueillir des portes « antisuicide »… sauf les portes
Les futures stations de métro de la ligne bleue auront tout pour accueillir des portes palières… à l’exception des portes elles-mêmes. Faute d’argent, la Société de transport de Montréal n’installera pas ce dispositif antisuicide dans l’immédiat, malgré les recommandations des coroners.

@sean@scoat.es
2025-11-09 18:35:20

You can do it, little thyme plant.
I’m not ready for actual snow season to start in #montreal quite yet.

The late autumn remains of my outdoor thyme bush, clearly marked “winter thyme” but also surrounded by this morning’s snowfall and some stray fallen tree leaves.
@peter_mcmahan@mas.to
2025-11-19 15:37:47

I mean, I'm glad Montréal is finally installing bollards in this bike lane but
... not like that?
#montreal #velo #cycling #urban…

Photo of a road crew installing green plastic bollards in the middle of a single-lane bike lane. Three bollards are attached to the road directly on top of the painted bicycle and arrows that designate the lane.
@jerome@jasette.facil.services
2025-11-03 02:35:09

Le résultat des élections de maire/mairesses d'arondissement Š #montreal ça se trouve où?

@sean@scoat.es
2025-10-29 15:22:08

In 2013, when #Montreal was deep into its corruption self-investigation, we almost ran out of asphalt.
We'd made a new rule that anyone named during the Charbonneau commission's corruption inquiry was disqualified from being a vendor/supplier for the city.
The hitch was that all of the asphalt suppliers were named. Yes, *all* of them.
So we had to decide “run out of pothole-p…

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-11-08 04:23:08

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Nicolas Gombert, Montreal Early Music Studio & Christopher Jackson:
🎵 Elegie sur la mort de Josquin Musae Jovis
#NicolasGombert #MontrealEarlyMusicStudio #ChristopherJackson