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A slew of new traffic-calming measures comes after a seven-year-old girl was killed in a hit and run while walking to school in the Ville-Marie borough last year.
Over a hundred Montrealers gathered in the snow outside Jean-Baptiste-Meilleur primary school on Friday morning. Many held signs calling for safer roads in the Centre-Sud, where seven-year-old Ukrainian refugee Maria Legenkovska was killed in a hit-and-run two days prior.
The long weekend is finally here! And as you are planning to travel in and around the Montreal area to be with your loved ones on Thanksgiving, you should be mentally prepared for the many road closures for construction ahead of you.
Police will be paying closer attention to the roads over the next two weekends. The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) says its officers will be out on roads and highways to catch travellers who are speeding or driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The Quebec police force says speed and impaired driving "remain the main causes of fatal collisions" in the province. Last year, authorities recorded nine fatal crashes during the Saint-Jean and Canada Day weekends.
Almost half of us cruise down the road while glued to our smartphones, a new survey has found. According to a report by Ratesdotca, 43% of Canadians admit to using their phones behind the wheel while 83% engage in distracted driving behaviour of one kind or another.