The GAZETTE, Montreal, Tuesday, September 27, 1 983 A-3 Bus rivers may get radio assistance CJa 1 TED BLACK MAN By ANN LAUGHLIN of The Gazette The Montreal Urban Community Transit Commission is considering installing radio communication systems on buses and providing special training courses to help drivers deal with rowdy delinquents, MUCTC Chairman Lawrence Hanigan said yesterday. He also said that automatic scanners for monthly transit passes could be in place in the Metro system early next year. "What we have in mind (for security) is installing radio equipment in the buses linked directly with a control centre so that police could be alerted if there is trouble," Hanigan told a caller on a radio phone-in show. He also said the transit com mission is looking into special retraining courses to teach drivers how to defuse situations which could turn ugly. "I'm not talking about physical defence training," he said.
"What we're looking at is a way to instruct drivers on how to deal with situations. It's all in the way they act" Hanigan used as an example the case of a bus driver recently confronted by a man who refused to pay more than 25 cents of the 80-cent cash fare. Instead of getting into an argument with the man or trying to eject him, the driver stood up, told the passengers that the man was refusing to pay full fare and asked what should be done. The 30 passengers shouted back that the man should pay full fare like anyone else. Red- faced, the man paid up.
Fielding a wide range of questions from callers, Hanigan said Montrealers might be in for a fare increase of more than six per cent next January but he said he hoped the price rise could be contained within that previously-announced ceiling. "It's possible that the increase will be more than six per cent but we will have to wait to see what subsidy we get from the Montreal Urban Community and the province," he said. A six-per-cent increase would mean cash fares for adults would rise to 85 cents, a book of 14 tickets could cost $9.54, an adult monthly pass would cost $23.85 and a monthly pass for seniors and students would cost $9.01. Hanigan gave no further details of his security plans during waits at transfer points. No date has been set for release of the schedules and Hanigan would not estimate the cost of the project beyond saying "I thinK we can afford it." He said he is receiving "good feedback" on his proposal to restore limited downtown bus service to Hampstead and the Snowdon district which erupted in protests with the demise of the old 65 route along Queen Mary Rd.
and Cote des Neiges Rd. when the Snowdon Metro stop opened. The proposed new service would end at Dorchester Blvd. and run only 12 hours a day. Hanigan said there would also be improvements to the 105 bus route from Montreal West which now ends at the Vendome Metro station.
the broadcast and he could not be reached for comment later. Neither his aides nor officials of the Brotherhood of Bus Drivers and Metro Operators wers aware of Hani-gan's plans. "In a rough situation, a driver doesn't have the time or the hands to use communications equipment to deal with the situation and drive too," Maurice Ve-zina, vice-president of the drivers' union, said yesterday. "A few years ago they tried telephones in some of the buses operating out of the St. Denis garage and it just didn't work and they were all taken out." Hanigan also said yesterday the MUCTC would gradually issue timetables for its 150 bus lines so that passengers could plan their trips and avoid long 3i ix ill mis i.
fTft'n inirnnliif i Photographer a fast learner i GOOD MORNING: Self-described self-made millionaire E. Joseph Cossmann was in town on the weekend to teach a couple of hundred Montrealers how to make their first bundle, and did a double-take when society photographer Ruby Shulman put two of his instructions into effect on the spot "Get all the free publicity you can," Cossmari. told more than 200 persons at the outset of two, all-day seminars at the Hyatt Regency. "And be' able to make a direct sale any time any- where." Shulman, better known as the omnipresent. "Ruby of Drummond Photo," leaped to his ee announced his line of business, asked for permission to distribute his business card through- out the room and thanked Cossman for the op-; portunity to garner all this free publicity.
Then, when Cossman mentioned that he al-" ways had a local photographer shoot his semin-'! ar on the final day, Shulman vowed to turn up. with his kit bag the next morning and handle the. job. Cossman could only congratulate Shulman for making the direct sale his first day in class. "I got my money's worth the first day," Shul- man said.
Cossman was walking proof of his ability to make a buck. After all, more than 200 paid $495 apiece to listen to his advice, and you don't need an accountant to figure out what that two-da; stop here was worth. Aside from renting a hotel room and audio-visual equipment, Cossman served up litA tie more than himself. "Yeah, all they gave you was coffee in the, morning, and you had to hustle for the second cup," Shulman says. Still, Cossman was entertaining and the suS-.
ject matter was informative. For example, "How to Cash Most of an NSF Cheque." He told the story of an $11,000 cheque that bounced back into his lap. He noted the -bank and account number and called up the! branch. He didn't claim to be the cheque writer, merely announced the name and number and asked for the current balance. The bank gavfr him a figure over $8,000.
"I went down to the bank, made a deposit of $3,000 cash in the man's account, cashed the -cheque and sent the man a bill for the he explained. "I don't remember whether we ever got the balance I sold the company but I do know I turned an $11,000 stiff into one of $3,000." It's cheaper in Ontario Quebec's Department of Transport is now studying the results of a survey along the Trans-Canada Highway near Rigaud and probably come to conclusions that have been well known to housewives in Hudson and St. La-zare for quite some time. Yes, it's cheaper to shop in Ontario. Dozens of orange-and-blue Transport Depart-ment cruisers have been on the road, funnelling two lanes into one so that inspectors with clip-boards can ask motorists two questions: "Where are you coming from? Where are you On a Saturday, the answer to the second ques-" tion is almost invariably Hawkesbury, Ont.
The inspectors never ask why, but the answer is Savings with a capital S. "Gas, for starters," says one St. Lazare resident. "One chap I know jumps in his Buick -every Sunday morning and his wife in her Rain bit and they're off like a convoy, religiously, for a 20-minute drive to the gas stations just across-: the Ontario border. He drives the Rabbit io work in Montreal and he figures the saving Is $30 a week.
That adds up." The main streets of Hawkesbury, a 25-min- -ute drive from the Hudson-St. Lazare area, look like the Fairview Shopping Centre parking lot-on a Saturday. Shoppers save on wine, booze, cigarettes, spe cial taxes on items such as videotape, and two per cent on sales tax in general. It's a wonder Hawkesbury city haven't hung up a sign: "The Pittsburgh of the '80s." The final word Arnie Gold of Cote. St.
Luc ended up the sea- son at the Big with his final baseball groaner "Name the four Alou brothers," he demanded. "OK, there's Matty, Felipe, Jesus and hey, there's no fourth." "Sure, Boog Powell." I "Huh?" "He had to change his last name." Timing is spotty at parking meters When you put a dime or a quarter in a Montreal parking meter, you can never be sure how much parking time you have purchased. A Gazette spot check of more than 50 meters in four areas of the city yesterday revealed that motorists seldom get what they pay for. In half of the cases the motorist was cheated of a few minutes while in the other half the city was short-changed. A dime put into a downtown meter is supposed to buy 10 minutes of parking time.
But the time given by the meters ranged from seven to 13 minutes. Only two meters that clearly cheated motorists were found. Both were situated on the west side of Mansfield St. opposite the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. One meter, for example, registered 35 remaining minutes when the reporter put an extra dime in, expecting the needle to jump to 45 minutes.
It registered only 43. Ten minutes later, when it should have registered 33, it had dropped to 19., The targets of yesterday's spot check were west downtown, east downtown, St. Antoine St. west of St. Lawrence Blvd.
and the streets bordering the Berri bus station. City officials could not be reached for comment. Meter rates vary, depending on where they are situated. Sex offender gets jail term A 66-year-old Montreal man who persuaded three girls under 14 to have sexual relations with him was given a four-year prison term yesterday. Evidence during the trial revealed that Maurice Gamache picked up the girls at pinball arcades in Laval des Rapides.
Chief Sessions Court Judge Yves Mayrand noted that Gamache had a lengthy record of similar sexual offences and was on probation at the time. Danielle Benoit pours glass of wine for oenophile Marcel Harvey ogling Michele Aarault! Roll out the barrel, wine fest ready to flow About 30,000 people are expected to sample 2,000 types of wine in Montreal this week as the city's third annual international wine festival kicks off today at the Velodrome. "We've got every type of wine you could possibly imagine," said Lina Delli Colli, an official of the Societe de Promotion Generate, a private firm organizing the event for wine makers. The 2,000 varieties are from 27 countries. Wine lovers will be able to sample about 75 brands not carried by the Quebec Liquor Corp.
The festival begins at noon today. A price of a glass is 50 cents, said Delli Colli. Admission is $5 a day, $4 for senior citizens and $3.50 for groups of 25 or more. There are no restrictions on the amount visitors can drink. "You're paying for it," Delli Colli said with a smile.
No plans have been made to deal with problem drinkers. "That's their problem, not mine," she joked. The festival will be open from noon to 10 p.m. daily until Saturday, and from noon to 8 p.m. Sunday.
Tower under stress, engineer testifies Olympic Installations Board (OIB) against French architect Roger Taillibert, said excess pressure on the mast reduced the structure's security factor by five per cent He said tension was "much higher than the norms" and unacceptable by both North American and European standards. Proulx said he was not suggesting anything terrible would happen such as walls buckling, rupturing or collapsing. But he said such pressure increases "the probability of disturbance." He said reinforcements are By PEGGY CURRAN of The Gazette Faulty stress estimates not construction delays caused defects in the Olympic stadium's tower, an engineer told Quebec Superior Court yesterday. Jacques Proulx said stress within the unfinished mast is three times greater than Canadian standards allow because the "project's authors" miscalculated the weight of the prestressed concrete and failed to provide back-up support. Proulx, testifying at the $18.3 million damage suit by the needed to reduce pressure in the tower's front wing, legs and on the synthetic support pads.
In a report prepared for the OIB in August, Proulx calculates stress in the tower's front wing as of 1980 at 1,452 pounds per square foot. Canadian standards permit pressure of 464 pounds per square foot. Proulx denied allegations by engineers, as early as March, 1976, that problems in the prestressed concrete tower were caused by ducts that were too narrow, poor construction and frequent work stoppages while the concrete was being mixed. In fact, he said, construction delays had little or no effect on pressure in the mast. Pre-constmction estimates in 1976 suggested pressure on the tower would be 789 pounds per square foot, still well above the Canadian norm of 464 pounds.
Instead, the 40-year-old engineer blamed initial estimates which were "too optimistic." He said concrete used was much heavier than expected and the tower should have been built with empty ducts which could have held cables to support extra weight if needed. The trial continues today. 0 audio centre raiwa; HarmanKardon RECEIVER-3501. NEW-Bang RX Turntable. KEF SPEAKERS.
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