NEWS & ANALYSIS

CDN/NDG was well prepared for moving chaos

By P.A. Sévigny The Suburban As usual, July's holiday weekend is often reduced to a logistical nightmare as Montreal's moving day madness takes over the city's normally quiet residential streets. While some tenants are moving out of their old apartments, others are moving in and a lot of snap decisions are made about mattresses and dressers. Within hours after the trucks are gone, everybody's knocking back a beer while waiting for some pizza, but the streets are still piled high with tons of decrepit and broken furniture which means the borough has to pick up the mess. While some of the city's boroughs admit they were overwhelmed by the tsunami of moving day detritus, experience has taught CDN/NDG borough managers how their failure to plan almost always guarantees their plan to fail. "We paid a lot of people overtime," said borough spokesman Francois Puchin. "Over the moving day period, we had four extra trucks on the road picking up large objects wherever our workers can find them." With over 160,000 people living within 20 square kilometres, the borough's trucks are bound to be busy because of a highly

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