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  • Aug 1, 2011
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August 1st, 2011
Montreal – Ville Marie Collapse Shows Depth of Infrastructure Crisis

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It’s such a fortunate thing that nobody was hurt in Sunday’s frightening collapse of a concrete ceiling grid at the eastern end of the Ville Marie Tunnel, a part of the tunnel which is only partially covered, and where the sunken roadway is exposed to perforated daylight. But that’s a small consolation in the larger context of what this incident says, or confirms once again, about the sorry state of transport infrastructure in the greater Montreal region. Read More

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Editorial+Ville+Marie+collapse+illustrates+depth+infrastructure+crisis/5187559/story.html#ixzz1Tn0eeGMa