Cities green-roof their highways while Montreal dozes

   More separatists. No, seriously. The western part of the city of Montreal never attracts major government investment or any other political goodies because it is a slam-dunk Liberal party vote, so both sides take the area for granted and thus the area never gets anything nice and doesn't even bother asking for or dreaming for any responsible planning.
   Thus the chances of a highly-sensible plan like the green-roof covering of at least parts of the Decarie expressway have never been considered or even proposed in any serious way other than on Coolopolis.
   And yet as this article points out, (Thanks to S.H. for the link) cities such as Seattle, Boston, St. Louis, Chicago and Los Angeles have actually completed or are seriously proposing far more ambitious schemes to hide highways by putting them below ground and covering them with grass.
   Montreal's project would be relatively simply compared to these other cities as the Decarie Expressway is already below ground level and could be done easily in piecemeal form if required. 

   The roof is something an engineer could draw up on his lunch break, as the weight to be carried above would require fewer and smaller supports below.
   How would we get the cash to do this? I'd say we could get the engineering firms found guilty of collusion to do it at as punishment freeb, or else divert some of the billions money for the unneeded Turcot rebuild - which will paralyze traffic in the west end - and put it towards this initiative.