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  1. Cataclaw

    2010 World Cup

    un sujet a posté Cataclaw dans L'actualité

    The WC has been going on for a while now and no thread? I just watched USA beat Algeria 1-0.. dramatic win! Goal at 91st minute by Donovan! Crazy stuff! Happy for USA who had a fair goal incorrectly disallowed in the previous game (which would have allowed them to advance)
  2. Cataclaw
    I guess you missed the part where i outlined 10+ skyscrapers of 150-200m+ currently under construction or approved
  3. Cataclaw
    Sure. Frankfurt is of comparable population and has five buildings in the 200m+ range (whereas we have only one) Its most recent skyscraper is a 170m tower built less than a year ago. Currently under construction, Tower 185 is 55 storeys, 205m and should be completed next year. On their approved list, a bunch of new skyscrapers slated for construction this year and next: European Central Bank Headquarters (Skytower) - 185m - 43 floors Hochhauskomplex Neue Mainzer Straße - 197m - 55 floors Hochhaus Güterplatz - 160m - 45 floors Grand Hyatt Hotel - 150m - 40 floors Kaiserkarree - 135m - 38 floors Also, there are 5 other proposed towers 200m+ on the table, including one supertall at 300m+. Meanwhile, in Montreal, we've just completed the Louis Bohème, which does not even reach 100m.
  4. Cataclaw

    Expos de Montréal

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

    I'll be blunt: Baseball is a slowly dying sport.
  5. Cataclaw
    From Wikipedia: The building has a double core construction, with a circular cross section. The Umeda Exit of the Ikeda Route of the Hanshin Expressway system (when exiting the highway from the direction of Ikeda) passes through the fifth through seventh floors of this building. The highway is the tenant of those floors. The elevator passes through the floors without stopping, floor 4 being followed by floor 8. The floors through which the highway passes consist of elevators, stairways and machinery. The highway does not make contact with the building. It passes through as a bridge, held up by supports next to the building. The highway is surrounded by a structure to protect the building from noise and vibration. The roof has a heliport. That is one badass building.
  6. Cataclaw
    Usage of wood stoves has diminished greatly in Montreal over the last few decades, yet smog still exists. Cars contribute to smog, though they are far from being the only factor. Still... increased car use = increased smog. Hopefully 0-emission cars will change all that in the future! Valuable agricultural land, protected or not, will fall prey to pressure from politicians, developers, etc. Lower densities means increased expense on road infrastructure, not less. True, simpler forms of expressway construction are used (no grade separations, elevated segments, etc.) but the distances to be covered are far, far greater and the number of highways greater as well.
  7. Cataclaw
    Well there's something we can agree on, Cyrus. The best solution (albeit the most expensive) would be to stick Bonaventure under ground entirely, from just before Peel Bassin until the Ville-Marie Expressway where it would connect via an underground interchange. The above-ground land could then be spent entirely on parcs and skyscrapers
  8. Cataclaw
    More people driving around is undesirable because: 1. Increased pollution 2. Promotion of sprawl and lowered densities 3. Lower densities means support infrastructure becomes less cost-effective (if everyone lives in a single-family home in the suburbs, your sewage system, for the same cost and amount of work installing it, will now service 10 families instead of potentially 1000). Providing electricity and water is also more expensive when the density is lower. 4. Increased dependency on oil (this is subject to change in the future, but for now, it has not) 5. Drop in mass transit ridership 6. Increase in land use at the expense of forests, valuable agricultural land and other green spaces 7. Increase in land spent on transportation infrastructure (including parking) decreases taxable land and revenue 8. Studies have proven that people living in low density areas have a lower life expectancies (as a result of being less healthy overall, due to walking less as a result of dependency on cars) 9. Increased hot spots ("ilots de chaleur") 10. Greater number of smog days And i could go on and on... That's the 1960s mentality i was talking about. Is elevated freeway really the best form of road? Why aren't all roads freeways then? Maybe Sainte-Catherine should be an elevated freeway too, since it's the best and most evolved form of road! Only the finest for one of our best streets, right?
  9. Cataclaw
    I agree that traffic engineers should synchronize the lights. "Faire chier le monde" on purpose i certainly do not approve of. I hope (and i want) this to be done properly!!
  10. Cataclaw
    Bonaventure backing up to Rene-Levesque is 600m and perfectly reasonable in my view. Backed up to Rene-Levesque is nothing. Look at Decarie when it backs up daily to Queen-Mary (that's 3km!!!) Or how about when the Lafontaine Tunnel is backed up to Montarville (that's 5.5km!!!) University is an important street, no doubt Habsfan, but traffic there is small in comparison. That's all i'm trying to say. Listen... if Bonaventure had 200,000 cars/day i'd be very nervous about demolishing it and rebuilding it at-grade with traffic lights. I honestly would. But at 25% (and less) of that amount, we can comfortably create something good for the city : a doorway to the south for facilitated expansion of our downtown! The trade-off is insanely beneficial. A few seconds (up to a couple minutes) added to a commute that few people use to begin with (compared to other major arteries) Gives us: Gateway to the south, new entrance for the city, new development opportunities, increased quality of life, better city life for pedestrians and cyclists, more visually appealing area with new parcs, trees, sidewalks, fresh pavement, less concrete, etc. And more! --------- But anyway. I understand not everyone will see eye-to-eye on this issue, so i will respect your opinions Cyrus and IshmaelJones. We can agree to disagree! :highfive: --------
  11. Cataclaw
    Because that was the mentality in the 1960s. If we drastically increase service (let's say we double the lanes on all highways on the island) then we counter-intuitively encourage a threefold increase in automobile use which will lead to ever greater traffic congestion. (Not to mention promote sprawl, worsen air quality, etc.) There is such a thing as optimal road capacity. We need highways, don't get me wrong. I'm strong proponent for the A-25 extension, the A-30 extension, the A-50, etc. But too much capacity will only ensure a comfortable drive for a short while. As people opt to take the highway, traffic will increase until congestion is achieved once again, only this time, more people are dependent on using their cars so the congestion has a diminished chance of lessening due to mass transit options. Trust me, i've studied this at length. More lanes != better service. The Bonaventure corridor does not have sufficient traffic to warrant being an elevated expressway. It needs to be brought down to ground-level so that we can move forward with the sustainable development of the neighborhood.
  12. Cataclaw
    Bonaventure has ~50,000 cars per day, compared to nearly 4x that (~200,000) for the Metropolitan, ~200,000 also for the Decarie, ~160,000 for the Ville-Marie, etc. Taschereau Boulevard in the south shore alone has 2x more daily traffic than the Bonaventure! I'm not saying it isn't used, but it's certainly not comparable to any neighboring highway. Bringing it down at-grade will not drastically change traffic patterns.
  13. Cataclaw
    As an urban planner who has a passion for these issues, i must object and take offense to your not-so-subtle claims of ignorance. I am quite well informed and i understand quite well what's at stake here, thank you very much. Furthermore, I've put forth arguments that make sense over the last few pages. They're there for the reading. Finally, i'd like to reiterate my strong belief that the elevated highway cutting through town is unnecessary and a hindrance to sustainable development. It must be redeveloped. Period.
  14. Cataclaw
    Skyscraper construction in Europe is outclassing us by an enormous margin. As for "prettier than us", that's a critically subjective term and i scoff at such a notion. Finally, Cleveland has towers in the 200m+ range (including Key Tower at 280m) and it has 2 million in its metro and just 400k in city proper. So, yeah... Equating city size with skyscraper height is not particularly accurate.
  15. Cataclaw
    Ah ben merde. Je pensais qu'on n'avait pas eu le rendu encore pour la phase IV. Rofl. Merci Gilbert!
  16. Cataclaw
    Quelques photos prises aujourd'hui, 21 juin 2010:
  17. Cataclaw
    PHASE IV!! J'ai trouvé un rendu de la phase IV qui est maintenant en pré-vente. La qualité n'est pas super (le rendu était dans un vidéo Youtube que j'ai trouvé, j'ai du faire du photoshopping.) Voici:
  18. Cataclaw
    SKYMTL and IshmaelJones: I must respectfully disagree. Thankfully, the city does as well. In my opinion you guys are stuck in the 1960's. Vivement le projet du Havre! Edit: So the same people hating on this project are the same ones that hated on the Parc/Pine interchange project, even though it's almost universally praised now. You guys are seriously in the minority. It boggles my mind to think some people actually liked it better when we had this colossal mess: I'm quite happy with:
  19. Cataclaw
    Similar project in San Francisco: The Embarcadero elevated highway before/after: You tell me that isn't an improvement and a better quality of life for everyone. I understand the fear... change can do that. I remember there was some opposition to the Parc/Pine project, but now today everybody loves the new intersection. It's cleaner, nicer, greener, friendlier, and the automobile traffic flows just fine.
  20. Cataclaw
    I disagree wholeheartedly. Not at all! How would it be worse for pedestrians? Instead of walking or cycling under a noisy and aging concrete elevated road with little local interest (that also physically and psychologically separates two areas), people will now cross at pedestrian crosswalks lined with shops and buildings. That seems like a significant upgrade to me! Bordered by 4 lanes of traffic per side, actually. How is this different from any avenue in New York City? Parc Avenue has 8 lanes and 80 storey skyscrapers. If you've ever walked around, there is tons of pedestrian activity! Also, last i checked, René-Lévesque has just as many lanes and is bustling with pedestrian, automobile and cycling activity. Not to mention the skyscrapers. That argument makes no sense. A neighborhood physically separated by an elevated highway would be reconnected. We're talking visual improvements, improvements in street-level activity (new buildings, stores, parcs). That's a clear and definite improvement! East-west connection exists but is certainly not "cleaner" or "easier". The whole area around Bonaventure is aged and decaying. This project would eliminate a concrete eyesore, replace it with a new freshly paved boulevard, new sidewalks, new streets, new public squares, new parcs, new trees, etc. This project will unquestionably make things cleaner and nicer, not the other way around!
  21. Cataclaw
    Bonaventure will still remain, only the last 650m will be at-grade. We sometimes get the impression that a lot will change with this, but the express entrance into town will still be there, it'll just be at-grade. If you're traveling at 70km/h on that stretch of the Bonaventure, you'd normally traverse that distance in 33 seconds. With a new boulevard max 50 zone, you'd traverse that same distance in 47 seconds assuming the lights are well synchronized. We're talking a difference of 14 seconds, something you wouldn't even notice at all. If you spend 40 minutes driving into town, 14 seconds more or less won't change much. In exchange for the 14 seconds of driving time, we get: a. A grand entrance for the city b. Better street grid connectivity c. New land opened for development /w potentially some highrises d. Better quality of life for a neighborhood e. Connecting east and west and allowing downtown to expand to the south with greater ease I say it's worth it. If they replaced Bonaventure with a 1-lane road and a bike path, i'd cry foul too, but we're just bringing the road to street level and preserving the number of lanes over 650m of road. From a driver's perspective, it isn't that big of a change!
  22. Cataclaw
    Ayoye. Il serait définitivement le temps de démolir cette structure et créer une simple intersection avec feux de circulation à sa place.
  23. Cataclaw
    Juin 2010
  24. Cataclaw
    Correct me if i'm wrong: You have to stop if they flash their lights. It's also illegal to have emergency/police lights anywhere on your car if you're not a cop/ambulance/etc.
  25. Cataclaw
    I APPROVE! I have zero tolerance for bad driving. Get those tailgaters, speeders, swervers, red light burners, rolling-stoppers and cellphone texters.
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