Tonight was our first trip out to a restaurant in Montreal since the collapse of a fifteen metre section of flyover last weekend. Five dead underneath the former roadway and six injured on the top. The official line is that all the bridges had been recently inspected and the bit that fell was A1, in fact it should have been another part of the same bridge that collapsed!
En route to "La Stanza" an all-you-can-eat style buffet I found myself becoming slightly nervous as we emerged onto an expressway that passed under numerous bridges. Some had steel girders, that was ok, and some where quite recent, but others were characteristic of the era that coincided with the Expo' in '67 when a whole network of roads was called for, overnight...
Isabelle's dad claims that the Mafia had something to do with the handing out of contracts and that the construction companies skimped on the concrete.
Tonight there is a certain amount of additional traffic chaos due to suspicion falling on other bridges which has caused more than just the missing road to close.
The cars ahead grind to a halt and by chance we find ourselves directly under a concrete flyover. It's an opportunity to survey the structure overhead through the back window, are there any cracks? Yes.
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