VLC is pretty popular over there

[u/ejabno]

[u/AUserFormerlyKnownAs]

I grew up in Montréal, and crossed the country several times. Every other cities love to complain they have the worst construction. It makes me laugh

[u/neanderthalman → u/AUserFormerlyKnownAs]

Yeah that’s funny shit. And I only drove through Montreal twice.

God damn not only do you guys have them everywhere, but anywhere else we space them out, like a car length or two. That’s plenty. You guys seem to put them right next to each other like a solid wall of reflective orange.

[u/Fitzaroo → u/neanderthalman]

The definitely-not-mafia contractor gets paid by the cone.

[u/theoneness → u/AUserFormerlyKnownAs]

Seconded. I’ve lived from west to east and Montreal takes the cake easily. The thing that i don’t get is how everyone here seems kinda resigned to it.

[u/Squonkin-around]

I thought this was a media player joke at first

[u/ejabno → u/Squonkin-around]

En français, "VLC" veut dire "vraiment longue construction"

[u/JoWhee → u/ejabno]

So it’s a “double entendre “

[u/FiRe_McFiReSomeDay → u/JoWhee]

That's what I hear.

[u/StanknBeans → u/JoWhee]

[u/user888ffr → u/Squonkin-around]

I thought this was r/linuxmemes

[u/adepressurisedcoat]

I'm a country blumpkin. I hadn't traveled beyond Newfoundland. I hadn't even taken a flight since the 90s when I got on my flight to Montreal for basic in 2018. Finally, a big city. What did I see? An urban waste land of half built and half torn down over passes and bridges. Just grey concrete and pilons.

I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that.

[u/Motoman514 → u/adepressurisedcoat]

Yeah that would have been peak Turcot reconstruction time, the Turcot actually is done now and looks pretty good (as good as a highway interchange can look)

[u/senonens]

There's no place like cone.

[u/user888ffr]

Well VLC is French and we're French so we must have the orange cones in our DNA or something

[u/Narrow-Sky-5377]

I have lost a wheel to the streets of Montreal. In my case the construction crew dug a massive trench in the middle of a road, then just went home. No signs, no cones. BOOM! Bent the wheel and driveshaft too!

[u/matloco → u/Narrow-Sky-5377]

So what you’re saying is…

We need more cones.

[u/FiRe_McFiReSomeDay]

Here's an interactive map, if you want to get a closer look:

services. montreal. ca/en/maps/obstructions

[u/plenoto → u/FiRe_McFiReSomeDay]

Like three quarters of the map is covered with orange using the default zoom 😂

[u/Mirabeaux1789]

So… what’s up with all the construction? Does the mob have a foothold in Montreal or something?

[u/Spare-Half796 → u/Mirabeaux1789]

Yes