A brand new Montreal public square that is designed to resemble a “suspended blossoming meadow” is lined with orange construction cones after reports that people were tripping over its concrete terrain.

The Place des Montrealaises, which was inaugurated in mid-May, was billed as a tribute to influential Montreal women and a passageway connecting Old Montreal with downtown.

But the site may have turned into a sore spot for Mayor Valérie Plante’s administration after La Presse reported this week that people have fallen and hurt themselves in an unmarked rain gutter that runs alongside the concrete sidewalk.

The city’s reflective pylons and orange tape didn’t stop Karen Rowan from tripping in the shallow channel as she crossed to take a picture midday Wednesday.

The British tourist said

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