Opinion: Squeals over Mount Royal traffic plan sound like entitlement
There are more than 1.2 million dead people on Mount Royal, taking up over 500 acres of prime Montreal real estate. They lie there in perpetuity by historical decree, for the benefit of a few. Established when much of the city was pasture, these monuments to ash and bone have endured even as the surrounding city transformed.
Though decidedly less sacrosanct, the road stretching over the mountain in half has proven no less enduring — until now. Constructed in the car-happy 1950s and named a
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