That picture of the escalator could be from any metro station in the city.
But whenever I see those little pointy bits that were installed on the dividers
between the escalators going up and going down, I think of a time when they weren't there.
Actually, I think they've always been there for as long as I've been in Montreal, but there
was a time when they were staggered : a pair on the outside, a pair in the center and so on.
Their placement allowed you just enough time to spread your feet and lift yout butt as you picked up speed,
finally reaching that last two feet of leveling off before there was nothing underneath your except gravity.
Why is it that 5, 000 people protesting a World Bank/IMF meeting in Washington
get front page coverage in both the Times and the Post and 150, 000
people protesting a war with Iraq, in London, are relegated to "hmmm, I wonder where they
would hide that story" section of the papers?