From a letter to the editor:
"We came up from New York to spend Christmas in Montreal. Our auberge was delightful, the restaurants were swell, the people were terrific, the city is beautiful - and the city government ought to be ashamed.
Ice, ice, ice. Not for drivers - they were serviced - but for walkers for whom every step was a risk to limb if not life. The entrance to the hugely busy Place d'Armes métro station was solid ice, with people on all sides falling. We were in a constant state of fear.
I grew up in New England, I've seen bad winters, but never - not in the big cities, not in tiny towns - did I see such shameful conditions as these. Deicing streets during a holiday is doubtless a massive expense, but the economic cost cannot be as great as the psychic cost to visitors who fear walking in your city, and the cost, ultimately, to the city itself. An administration that can do no better than this, to tend to the safety and well-being of its citizens, does not deserve to be in office."
MW.L.
New York
Ouch! It takes an American to call it like it is. You certainly won't hear it from Montrealers (although some do) because we're too busy thinking we're cool. Of course, she's right.
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