{"id":951867,"date":"2026-10-30T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951867\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:10:09","slug":"montreals-no-cone-zone-is-a-no-go-engineers-association-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951867\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal&#8217;s no-cone zone is a no-go, engineers association says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-to-remove-traffic-cones-from-downtown-use-ai-to-better-plan-worksites\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-to-remove-traffic-cones-from-downtown-use-ai-to-better-plan-worksites\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no-cone zone<\/a> is a flop, says Montreal\u2019s association of engineers, and they blame Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada for not making the rules clear for construction workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Martinez Ferrada\u2019s campaign pledges last year was to ease congestion and reduce visual pollution caused by construction sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saying the orange cone shouldn\u2019t be a symbol of the city, Martinez Ferrada announced in February she was designating a portion of the Ville-Marie borough an \u201cinnovation zone\u201d \u2014 bordered by St-Laurent Blvd. and Sherbrooke, Guy and de la Commune Sts. The idea is to find alternatives to orange cones at construction sites within the designated area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The so-called no-cone zone is a flop, says Montreal\u2019s association of engineers, and they blame Mayor Soraya Martinez&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,1007,2338],"class_list":["post-951867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-construction","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}