Top pic is rue Berri going north almost at the corner of rue Ontario. The bus terminal is just outside of the picture to the south.
Bottom pic is the southshore suburb of Brossard. My mother-n-law, may God rest her soul, lived maybe a mile or two away from that intersection. My first house was bought in the suburb of La Prairie. You could see the sign telling you to drive straight ahead. In another 2 or so miles and you'd reach my house. The Ford Edge I bought in 2007 would be bought at the Ford dealership along the way to La Prairie just slightly past that overpass down yonder. Montmorency Ford.
I know both areas very very...very well. Actually, I know Montreal and its surroundings very very well no matter where. Rue Berri is almost at the center of the city. St. Laurent boul. is the street that divides the city/island between east and west and Berri would be a handful of streets to the east. But Berri is the tourist and city bus terminal and our metro system has Berri at the center of where all the lines connect. EVERY Montrealer or tourist knows Berri very very well... Berri is almost downtown and Berri is also almost the access point of OId Montreal.
About those sidewalks (trottoirs- merci pour le français)
Montreal does clean them. We have cute ski doo buggies that fit our sometimes narrow sidewalks, (but in the last 2 decades it looks like Ville-Marie (the official name of the main city of Montreal) has spent millions in enlargening the sidewalks and bicycle paths.
This is done after a snowfall during the snowfall but usually not long after it has stopped snowing. They do a fantastic job of clearing the snow. But...in the following days, snow ends up getting back to the sidewalks somehow. Whether because the actual street removal will dump snow back on the sidewalk through thee clean-up and residual snow gets back up there. Although sometimes those cute little tractors clearing the sidewalks work in tandem with the street clearing crews.
It just happens. Montrealers ALWAYS bitch on how poorly the city cleans its streets and its sidewalks. No matter who the mayor is, no matter what burrough and what era, Montrealers DEMAND better... But ultimately, Montrealers cope with it...because we know it will NEVER get better. So we bitch some more to cope with it better.
Keep in mind though...we do get a lot of snow.