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  1. Cataclaw
    Je vous dis... un MagLev 500km/h qui fait Montreal-New York en 80 minutes... c'est le futur....d'ici 2050!
  2. Cataclaw
    Nice video CFurtado! I love watching your construction vids. It's nice to see the before and after and in-between.
  3. Cataclaw
    Cyrus: Maglev The Shanghai Maglev has a cruising speed of 430km/h and it can go much faster in controlled speed tests!
  4. Cataclaw
    A bit of both. Rochester was hit hard, but the ring road has contributed towards making the area undesirable as well. Yep. Balance is the golden rule. Sadly yes. I hope they do something about this! Just increase the frequency of trains! Yeah it costs more, but just find a way to do it already! It's a delicate balance. A very delicate balance. Traffic is good and actually necessary, because it's a deterrent that encourages people to use public transit. If everything flowed perfectly 100% of the time nobody would take public transit, ever, and sprawl would increase 20-fold. We'd end up with a city so spread out that it stretches all the way to the U.S. border! A city who's footprint is so huge experiences a wide array of problems, problems that i've outlined in previous posts. That being said... too much traffic is bad too, for all the obvious reasons. I find it totally unacceptable that A-15/20 headed towards Turcot from Champlain is 2 freaking lanes wide. The 4th busiest bridge in the world leads directly to... a narrow winding 2-lane stretch of highway?!? Which leads to Turcot a few km later... i mean come on. It's time we doubled the lanes on A-15/20 between Turcot and Champlain to 4-lanes each direction. It's just silly. Agreed that Bonaventure is pretty crappy 1960's design. However, it isn't used all that much (it's vehicles-per-day count is very low compared to all other highways in and around the island). I don't think the Bonaventure is a regional link at all, considering its very short length. The Bonaventure is a quick way to get into town, but... that won't change with the reconstruction project. It'll still be a fairly quick way to get into town, minus the horrendously cracked and bumpy surface lol. Ok... now that's just nuts, no offense. We were finding some common ground here and achieving some consensus on some issues, but thatlast paragraph just blows me away, lol. You're proposing we dig a trench and have University pass under René-Lévesque like Sherbrooke/Berri? Why?! That's terrible! We're in downtown!! That would instantly wreck the entire urban fabric of the area. Why don't we build a clover-leaf interchange for Sainte-Catherine--Saint-Laurent while we're at it?
  5. Cataclaw
    If they're truly going to seek a high-speed link, i hope they do it right: 500km/h high speed rail. None of this half-assed 250km/h crap. I want to have breakfast in Montreal, lunch in NYC, then supper in Montreal again with hours to spare!
  6. Cataclaw
    Amazing pics!! Thanks!
  7. Cataclaw
    Yawn. Montreal is a wonderfully vibrant and exciting city. Montreal has a lot going for it, not just culturally. It's a terrific city that ranks right up there with the best of 'em when it comes to quality of life. Haters gonna hate. Let em hate. We got better things to do.
  8. Cataclaw
    I agree and I disagree. I think if you look at a city like Philadelphia and compare it to Montreal, you'll notice that Philly's sprawl is very low in density. The sprawl is spread out all over the place with many pockets of farmland, fields, etc. In Montreal, it's easier to identify an exact boundary. You hit the 10/30 interchange in Brossard and you know you're leaving Montreal metro. (Although if St-Jean joins the metro, that would change) Look at a satellite map of Philly, and you'll notice that their sprawl is very scattered and uneven. So while you may never be truly far from civilization, the density is extremely low to the point where a small housing development might be surrounded by acres upon acres of fields and forests. So ultimately, i think there's a bit of apples-to-oranges going on here. But... i understand what you mean. It's totally true, you can leave from the center of town (let's call it University/René-Lévesque) and be driving by fields south of Brossard in 15-17 minutes. So 15 minutes can get you out of the urbanized perimeter, but it's important to note the direction. If you go east, you can go on for 50km of urbanization before you truly exit the built-up metropolitan area east of Repentigny. Likewise if you go north, you'll encounter some fields in Laval but you'll never be far from development. Only until the north shore will you exit the metro and really dive into farmland. To the west it's the same thing. So yes, i think our "southern border" is the thinnest, but don't let that be the reference point!
  9. Cataclaw
    I like the renderings we've seen of the Shriners. Simple, clean, just what a hospital should be.
  10. Cataclaw

    Canadiens de Montréal

    Cataclaw a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans L'actualité

    Good for Markov! My favorite Habs player keeps reminding me why he's my favorite.
  11. Cataclaw

    POM - 10 étages (2011)

    Cataclaw a répondu à un sujet de MARTY dans Complétés

    :rotfl:
  12. Cataclaw
    Copy, paste: "Attendons de voir le produit final..." J'avoue que ce n'est pas impressionant en ce moment, mais il manque encore beaucoup de petites touches (les fenêtes, les espèces de cercles, le béton peinturé j'espère, etc.)
  13. Cataclaw
    Je le trouve correct. C'est quand même un pont que peu de gens verront à part ceux qui circuleront dessus. Un pont dans un milieu urbain (ex: Jacques-Cartier) se doit d'être "beau" car il sera vu et pas à peu prêt!... mais ce pont? Bof, c'est correct.
  14. Cataclaw
    I don't quite understand what you mean by this. If Montreal has a high central density, it would suggest that Montreal is bigger, not smaller, than it actually is, by North American standards.
  15. Cataclaw
    Bonne nouvelle! Ca veut dire que l'année prochaine nous pourrons circuler sur l'A-25 et la partie est de l'A-30. Un an plus tard, nous pourrons également circuler sur la partie ouest de l'A-30! Ca achève!
  16. Cataclaw
    Bon ben, on va égaliser les choses, hein. Moi je suis pour la préservation du clocher. Si c'est possible de préserver quelque chose de vieux/historique -et- progresser avec des nouveaux développements, et bien moi je suis pour. C'est comme le meilleur des deux mondes.
  17. Cataclaw
    Ca achève! Merci pour la mise à jour!
  18. Cataclaw
    A necessary action by the Gazette. Their Saturday paper was already great, i can't wait to see the expanded edition.
  19. Cataclaw
    Hey yall, i come from small town Montreal and i likes me some poutine. Us rural folk sure do like our cheese and fries! EDIT: Funny how Montreal's population (over 1.6 million city proper) is greater than Philadelphia's (1.5 million city proper), Pheonix (1.5), Dallas (1.2) and many others. In fact, by city proper population, Montreal is the 6th most populous in the U.S.A and Canada. (Behind only NYC, LA, Toronto, Houston and Chicago) Heck of a small town!!
  20. Cataclaw
    What bugs me about opponents of the Dalhousie corridor is the claim that it'll disrupt street life and so on. "Who wants 1000 buses to pass by their place of residence?" Well, if you actually look at a satellite/street view image of Dalhousie st. and its axis/corridor, then you can clearly see that there is no development of any value there at all. Parking lots and abandoned buildings. The transit corridor will NOT pass by the Lowney. The Lowney is on Inspector street, not Dalhousie street! The buses will be passing by a block away. For the record, i don't think the Dalhousie corridor is the best possible option. I think there are better ways of doing it, but still. A lot of opponents have been making wild and unsubstantial claims.
  21. Cataclaw
    The A-20 isn't really a beltway, as it doesn't surround much at all. It's more of a linear route. The A-30 will be a proper periphery road once completed. By the way nomenclature pet peeve here: A-20, not Rte 132. In Quebec autoroute designations take priority over provincial roads. I know, i know, a lot of people still call it the 132 anyway... but it's Autoroute 20!! ;)
  22. Cataclaw
    Yeah but that's the thing. There are so many projects going up that look exactly like this, that you can practically say that our new "norm" or "average" is precisely that! Now, i'm not saying that's good... i'd certianly have wanted something unique and original! Exactly, and that's what i'm saying. I wish people would demand better architectural quality. Developers will start paying attention to architecture only when the demand for something that doesn't look boring and cheap increases. It is possible to build something that doesn't look terrible on a limited budget!
  23. Cataclaw
    J'emprunte cette route et les 3 voies sont necessaires, je peux vous le dire C'est bien que l'MTQ a prévu le coup pour une fois. Avec la nouvelle A-30 qui sera ouverte bientôt, élargir la 30 c'est simplement logique. Si on veut que notre fameuse voie de contournement fonctionne bien, il faut éviter qu'elle devienne congestionnée!
  24. Cataclaw
    That's a little harsh in my opinion. Granted, it won't win any awards and i'd much rather see something designed by *insert world renowned architect here* but considering what else is being built, i consider this average. So many projects look exactly like this, so yeah. Average at best. However... that being said, i wonder why we just sit by and accept such bland projects? We need to raise architectural awareness in the city and get developers to stop building such mundane buildings. For every sleek and inspired glass tower we get, there are 15 other lame rose-colored brick projects out there.
  25. Cataclaw
    Well, I think this just shows that the high-end/luxury market is a little thinner than we may have hoped, but condo sales in the low-mid range are certainly not a problem. Just look at the huge success story that is the Lowney! But still, i'd rather see both projects sell quickly so that other projects can follow suit... let's cross our fingers that things pick up!
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