“To be honest, it’s a comedy. Ding and Dong run a town! It is the Charlots who rule a city. Montreal is unimaginable!” starts Mario Dumont.
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Our columnist goes there with a comfortable gush of milk in response to the study by the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal. Yesterday we learned that a quarter of metropolitan orange cones are useless and that in one year 94% of downtown streets have suffered total or partial closure.
“We are not innocent, people understand that the roads need repairs, that there is work, but not everything can always be under construction,” says Mario Dumont.
“People don’t talk to each other. Bell closes a street to run his cables. The following month it was Énergir who closed the road to lay its pipes and then it was the city who closed the road to renew the tarmac and then someone else removed the tarmac to replace the pipes.” he storms.
Mario Dumont is not kind to the Mayor of Montreal. “Valérie Plante was elected Mayor for Mobility, but we know it’s a joke, she’s Mayor for Cycling. All other forms of mobility don’t interest him!”
“In terms of cones, she managed to do worse than before,” agrees our columnist.
“It’s gotten so serious, it’s so poorly managed, so much incompetence in Montreal. At some point someone had to take off their cheerleading hat [Michel Leblanc, président de la Chambre de commerce du Montréal métropolitain] and that we talk to each other about the mediocrity that reigns in the management of works in this city,” criticizes Mario Dumont.
*** Watch his full column in the video above.