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jfmezei

@jfmezei@mstdn.ca

Network/IT guy, started work on VAX computers.
Author of Petition to Governor in Council to overturn UBB decisions at CRTC.
was/is jfmezei on Twitter.
From greater Montréal, Québec, Canada, Earth area

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jfmezei, to random
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The governor of Maryland reminds me of the politician making a speech at the end of The Fifth Element. Talks a whole lot, but says very little. One fact: he was told hull of ship was damaged but intact. (I assume he means there is damage above water line, but not damaged below water line.).

heliomass, to transit
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🚈 New on the blog! Station Stories: Île-des-Sœurs – https://heliomass.com/posts/2404-station-stories---ile-des-soeurs/

We visit one of the newest stations in Montreal, and one of the newest in North America. How does it stack up?

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jfmezei,
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@heliomass God joke: "complete system will open by the end of 2023"

jfmezei,
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@heliomass Île des Soeurs had 2 bus lines from the Island of Montréal. the 168 and the 12. STM found the loophole to continue the 12 from Nuns Island to McGill Metro by adding a stop outside of the CDPQ exclusivity zone (Cité du Havre).

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@heliomass Priority was given to car drop off and taxis, pushing the bus terminal to the furthest possible point to make it less pleasnat to transfer from bus to REM. Buses should have gone under the station itself to make it more pleasant experience for drop off and waiting for bus.

jfmezei,
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@heliomass Interesting you didn't mention the ground shaking and all the vibration noise whenever a train passes (when you are under station).

jfmezei, to random
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Doc7austin rides the newly extended European Sleeper train that added Berlin-Prague segment (starts in Brussels)

33:44. https://youtu.be/Eq2A8ZAoxpM

This is a private train made of it “recycled” sleeping cars from many rail operators.

ÕBB Nightjet (Austrian) started a real renaissance for overnight train travel in Europe which passed rules to allow open access to tracks and cabotage on high speed lines (for instance. Spanish Renfe competing against SNCF on Paris Lyons).

jfmezei, to random
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Interesting explanation for why the Dali would have started a turn after losing power. It was at the time at the intersection of another channel and with tide going down, there would have been current flowing from that river/channel which would have pushed the Dali's stern to the right.

from: https://youtu.be/-rxKQ8Tr94s

jfmezei, to random
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Niagara Falls declares state of emergency due to the sun going down for maintenance next week. Appears changing the sun's lightbulb may overwhelm the city with tourists and authorities warn visitors to bring all necessities.

CBC: https://youtu.be/hgJMEh_oR9g

For good show, they should have also planned to shut down the falls at the same time !!!

jfmezei, to random
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If one believes the conspiracy theory that the earth is a rotating sphere: water at pole travels 0km in 24 hours. Water at equator travels 40,074km (circumference at equator ) in 24 hours or 1669.7kmh. Therefore when ice melts at pole and travels south it must be accelerated due to the Earth’s rotation. And that energy comes at expense of slowing down rotation. (Longer days). Accepting the Earth is flat is an elegant solution to that part of climate change issue 🙃

jfmezei, to random
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Amtrak downgrades its service down to VIA Rail levels with fixed seats facing backwards.
At least Amfleet II keeps reversing seats. (Adirondack is on AamfleetII)

jfmezei, to random
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The Place d,Armes métro ststaion before the Palais des Congrès was built over it. The lower level was not touched, but obviously upper level was changed. Thing is that I don't recall teh station being closed for any length of time while Palais des COngrès was built at phase 1, and when it was enlarged in phase 2 (with new floor at ground level).

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In our quest for our first home, we are exploring neighbourhoods. Today, we went for a great walk in Bonnie Doon.

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jfmezei,
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@jessica Spotted the Batmobile !

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@heliomass The big central atrium at Place Bonaventure. The yellow arrow points to where the doors to the train platforms are/were. There were steps between that floor and the carpeted level in middle, and stairs/escalators between the middle and main shopping level.

jfmezei, to random
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The Place Ville Marie shopping concourse as originally designed. To the left is where the covered bog standard fast food concourse now is. Used to be Queen Eliabeth restairants with outdoor terrases. (with stairs going up to Plaza level). Made shopping level much brighter. And getting lunch in summer much more pleasant outdoors.
The Queen E also had a large food outlet on the eastern side of the shopping mall that is unused today. It was very large with different food types served for lunch.

jfmezei, to random
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Bank of BC became HSBC Canada. Now HSBC, one of the world largest banks is leaving Canada having sold to Royal Bank who will screw their customers one at a ti e.

jfmezei,
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@mpjgregoire Caisses Populaires stole my money. They closed my local branch after being acquired by another Caisse whose branch is totally inaccessible by foot or bike and they have a policy to not allow customers to switch from one Caisse to another so was not allowed to choose a Caisse downtown that was more convenient to me. Closing account required a visit since I was a "new" customer to the inaccessible Caisse who acquired me. Money leftover was lost when they close the "inactive" account.

jfmezei, to random
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Will have to check history books. When did Bank of Toronto change to TD ? Strange that they would have a branch in Montreal.

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jfmezei,
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@mpjgregoire Until after 1976, Toronto was a small town with only TD headquartered there and all big banks still truly headquartered in Montréal. So surprising to see an old branch of a small Toronto bank outside of Toronto.

heliomass, to random
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Coming tomorrow is the next installment of Station Stories. But, does anyone want to hazard a guess from this photo which station we’ll be adding to the tier list this week?

jfmezei,
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@heliomass OK back to wrk analysing your image (which is very low resolution with very limited number of features. Just about all the south shore stations have some wooden ceilings somewhere.

jfmezei,
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@heliomass Those tiles are used at Île des Soeurs. But not sure if they aren't used elsewhere.

notjustbikes, to random
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My latest video is now live on Nebula!

Amsterdam needed to close a 90-year old historic bridge for for almost 4 months for necessary renovations. But they closed it to cars ... and built a whole new temporary bridge, just for bikes.

https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-amsterdam-closed-this-bridge-to-cars-but-not-bikes

jfmezei,
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@JJ_Allen @mcv @notjustbikes The decision made, against engineer recomendations to not build buffer/bumper/island around the 2 mission critical piers is neglect. (the excuse given is that they would be too expensive). You'll note that such were built for the transmission line piles that were recently built next to bridge.

jfmezei, to random
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In Montréal, the span of the Jacques Cartier Bridge between the Island of Montréal and ÎleSainte Hélène has one pylon into water and it doesn't have any perimeter protection, though this appears to be a far more robust one than the bridge in Baltimore.

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jfmezei,
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@mpjgregoire @chris The Port extending east of Jacques Cartier is relatively recent and for long time all ships going to Port of Montréal would pass under the Jacques Cartier bridge. Remember that what we call the "old port" was, until the 1980s an actual port with lots of grain silos.

Look t where and at what angle the CP Rail tracks reach the port of Montreal shore. No design t let CP trains go east of there originally.

jfmezei,
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@Chigaze @mpjgregoire @chris From a Radio Canada article in 2021. In is interesting because article mentions we can't get the big ships due to draft liits in St-Lawrence. Yet, the port installed post-panamax cranes and Coast Guard allowed post Panamax ship width on St-Lawrence in 2013. Wonder if there are many such ships that have post panamax width but still fit the St-Lawrence draft.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1788735/port-montreal-importance-economie-enjeux-trafic-concurrence-greve

Port Montréal release on getting post Panamax cranes: https://www.port-montreal.com/fr/le-port-de-montreal/nouvelles-et-evenements/nouvelles/grues

jfmezei,
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@Chigaze @mpjgregoire @chris From Port of Montréal:

While I have been hearing them about bragging about perfect to deliver to US market, it seems this is only 9% of their traffic. 54% of cargo is destined for Québec and only 26% for Ontario (since Toronto has no effective port, would have expected Montréal to act as its port with stuff shipped by rail to Trwanna).
If Québec is its main market, likely not large enough t support true post Panamax ships.

jfmezei,
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@Chigaze @mpjgregoire @chris Port of Montréal lists draft of 10.8m (and not sure if this depth is usable all the way to ocean or of parts of St-Lawrence east of Mtl might be more shallow).

https://www.port-montreal.com/fr/marchandises/affaires/tous-types-de-marchandise/marche-des-conteneurs

jfmezei, (edited )
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@Chigaze @mpjgregoire @chris Port of Montréal has an undated press release about it receiving its largest ship ever, the SC Melissa.

It has Draught of 9.8m. But only 6730 TEUs while the more modern ships have at least 10,000.

Uodate: found the date for press release on the largest ship to visit Montreal: 18 July 2021

jfmezei,
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@mpjgregoire @Chigaze @chris Interesting that port of montreal says 10.8m (but that is at the docks). You'd think they would have the same number. Perhaps Montréal to Sorel or Trois Rivières is 10.8 so allows some ships to do that run but ca't go fully loaded beyond.

Checked the St Lawrence Seaway and they say their daught is 8.2m. (was thinking perhaps it was deeper than St Lawrence.

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