Yayy

[_carmi]

You're going to work. You know you are going to have just enough time to take a coffee near your job to start the shift good. Next thing you know, the metro is blocked and you arrive late at work. Of course, the job excuses your lateness because they know it's not your fault. But you feel like shit, you didn't get your coffee, it's hot and sweaty outside and it infiltrates inside even if there's air conditioning.

Now you tell yourself it wasn't anything major til you read this:

Mtl. downtown core shut down over cracked tunnel

Updated Fri. Aug. 24 2007 11:12 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Concerns about Montreal's downtown infrastructure surfaced Friday after a large crack was discovered in an underground tunnel that makes up part of the city's sprawling underground network.

Police widened a safety perimeter Friday night after earlier closing off streets and shutting down a major subway line as a precaution after fire officials noticed water leaking from a concrete slab in the ceiling of a tunnel.

The subway line, which serves Montreal's downtown core, will remain closed indefinitely as engineers continue to inspect the large fissure, about seven-metres long.

They're trying to determine whether de Maisonneuve Boulevard, the street that runs above the east-west tunnel running from the Bay department store to the McGill subway station, will need to be reinforced.

Police spokesperson Robert Mansueto said the perimeter will be closed to traffic and pedestrians at least for the weekend, and it's likely the subway system will also remain closed.

"We are asking people to stay away as there is a real risk," Mansueto said.

Police and the fire department shut down the block Friday afternoon, causing commuter and traffic chaos.

Mayor Gerald Tremblay visited the area and said there's no immediate danger to the public.

Employees at The Bay noticed water infiltrating the building's basement. No injuries have been reported, but several hundred people were forced to leave The Bay this afternoon.

from the CTV website.

Now the metro is going to be closed for the weekend. Yay I work tomorrow at 10am and I'm gonna have to make a detour. Now, I highly doubt that it will only take this weekend to fix this. After all, if they have to reinforce a whole shopping center and a street, it will obviously take more than 2 days, no? I need to take that metro to go to work and to school. This sucks.

If only governments could take care more of the streets, the bridges, etc. We have bridges being closed or breaking down, streets are in a very bad condition. This sucks.

Yeah I'm pissed. But it's okay I suppose. Hopefully it'll be fixed by Monday.

 

[Tha_Wood]

have a few beers, everything will be better

 

[_carmi]

i don't like beer. i'd smoke a joint though but i don't have any with me

 

[DarkPhantom13]

Buy a car

 

[Flipmo]

Yup, I just came home from downtown. Was quite fun lol

 

[Maverick]

i don't like beer. i'd smoke a joint though(

word.

 

[_carmi]

Buy a car

i'm a student, how the hell am i supposed to pay myself a car. plus i dont even have a fucking driver's license yet.

 

[ill-matic]

public transport is a real bitch. to get to my uni by car in good traffic would take approx 20-25 minutes. by bus, because it takes so many fucking detours, and because the time table is all over the place the trip time nearly triples. fucking waste of life to be honest.

and yeh, buying a car isn't so simple. too expensive.

 

[Tha_Wood]

i'm a student, how the hell am i supposed to pay myself a car. plus i dont even have a fucking driver's license yet.

get your parents to buy it for you

 

[_carmi]

get your parents to buy it for you

they wouldn't. my parents aint millionaires.

 

[DarkPhantom13]

they wouldn't. my parents aint millionaires.

Start selling drugs then. :thumb:

 

[_carmi]

Start selling drugs then. :thumb: