TVA journalist Yves Poirier and citizens of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve have decided to roll up their sleeves to embark on a major clean-up operation near a cycle path where a pile of waste is found, despite repeated calls to the City of Montreal.
Leftover computers, pieces of cardboard and even shoes, this unsanitary problem has been noticed for several weeks at the corner of rue Notre-Dame and avenue de Bourbonnière.
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“A real shame, this has been going on for months […] I have never seen a blue-collar worker near the cycle path,” testified Gaël Forest, a citizen who participated in the operation.
However, several calls were made to 311 by residents, who did not see any change.
“Each citizen must contribute to the health of the neighborhood, obviously everyone must do their part, but there is an institutional failure coming from the City of Montreal which does not assume its responsibilities,” judges one of the residents, Alexandre Giasson.
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André-Philippe Doré, another concerned citizen, made a new call to 311 to request intervention Thursday morning. Although the dispatcher told him that a blue-collar worker would arrive within 30 minutes, that was not the case.
“The idea is not to blame blue-collar workers, it’s to say you hire inspectors to fine people, you hire people to have lines open on zero waste, but could you hire someone who comes when we say there are dirty syringes next to a place where there are residents,” he underlined.
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