Twenty-Two Percent of Construction Cones in Downtown Montreal Are ‘Useless’: Report

Construction cones are shown next to a construction site in Montreal, on April 25, 2023. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

A new report by Montreal’s chamber of commerce says about one in five of the ubiquitous orange construction cones in the city’s downtown appears to serve no purpose.

The Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal found that 22 percent of downtown cones have been abandoned or are “useless”—down from 27 percent in fall 2022.