Address:

Dept. of Computer Science & Software Engineering
Concordia University,
Montreal, H3G 1M8
Canada


Telephone:
+1 514 848 2424(3025)                     messages +1 514 848 3000

Fax:
+1 514 848 2830


Email:
BipinC.Desai AT concordia dot ca

  We look before and after,
  And pine for what is not;
  Our sincerest laughter
  With some pain is fraught;
  Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Recent elections

  No comment is the best one for someone who is left speechless!

  
  

• Speed bumps

  The local authorities are adding speed bumps in residential streets to show that they are doing something to reduce accidents involving bodily harm. However, we do not know if the number of injuries are lower due to these speed bumps. What is certainly happening is the increase in pollution when drivers brake to go over a bump and then step on the gas to increase their speed and make up time between bumps and then brake again to go over the next one. This exercise repeated by most motorist also causes brake wear and the increase in the brake dust which may be harmful to breathe.

  The other irony of these speed bumps on streetsin the city are in pretty bad shape that they are not really needed. It is not possible to drive fast due to all the pot-holes and uneven street surface with indifferent patching done on street not constructed for the local weather and traffic. A bete solutions would be do put large flower pots to reduce the width of the street instead of speed-bumps.
  

• Bicycle lanes and bicyclists

  Another recent trend one notices is the redesign of streets to put in bicycle lanes. This is done at the expense of the driving lanes and hence causes a bottle neck for the drivers. The number of bicycles, in a cold city like Montreal is increasing and it is good for the safety of the bicyclists. However, this is at the expense of drivers which seems questionable.

  The other issue is one notices time and again is that the bicyclists do not obey the rules of the road and many drive outside the bike lanes for some strange reasons. r> It is about time that these careless cyclist be given tickets/fines for not stopping at stop signs, traffic lights and biking in driving lanes when there are bike lanes etc. They should be given tickets etc. and fined for dangerous biking and accessed de-meri points which could take away their bikes!.
  

• Some observations Covid etc.

  The local stores are crowded and with narrow isle, an ideal place for the spread; specailly when the medical profession does not think people should were some kind of face masks.
  
  
  
  
  

If you want to reach me, get yourself an email address e.g., which is from your own university or work place. Let us hope that some time soon, the politicians would use the public postal systems to manage publicly controlled email system.

Even though I was involved in the very early days of the WWW, it has been a dis-appointing betrayal of its original intent. I do not participate in any networks - social(!) or unsocial, so pl. don't invite me to join any!

If you are a prospective student and want me to supervise you, you must be able to fund your graduate studies. I am very selective and don't expect a reply to your request.