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Place du SPECTRUM / Complexe SIDEV - 26 étages (2011)
Cataclaw a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans Projets Annulés
En effet, c'est un bon truc! Malek, je dois être honnête avec toi, au début je pensais que t'était M. Voiture-à-tout-prix, mais je commence à penser que ta la bonne vision de la chose. La voiture et les infrastructures routières sont très importantes, mais il faut aussi améliorer le transport en commun pour ainsi obtenir un équillibre. Les voitures ont leur place... et le TEC a sa place. Beaucoup de gens ici sur mtlurb sont anti-char, ce qui n'est pas correct selon moi... et beaucoup de gens sont anti-TEC, ce qui n'est pas correct non plus. Le meilleur, selon moi, c'est un équillibre harmonieux entre tout les systèmes de transport -- oui, les vélos, et oui, les voitures. -
The blind walls are definitely ugly. I appreciate the attempts at making them nicer by putting in some waves, but a blind wall is still a blind wall. Fortunately, it's temporary... hopefully in the next 5 years the 900 de Maisonneuve will fill up the empty space, wall-to-wall. Patience, gentlemen. Patience.
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Place du SPECTRUM / Complexe SIDEV - 26 étages (2011)
Cataclaw a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans Projets Annulés
Stationnes toi à un metro et prend le metro... Dans mon cas, jamais eu de problèmes. Chez nous --> Métro Longueuil = 4 minutes en voiture Métro Longueuil --> Métro P.D.A. = 8 ~ 11 minutes Rien de personnel magstb, mais c'est un peu naif de croire que tu trouveras une place pour te stationner facilement lors d'un méga-spectacle. Faut être réaliste. Chialler qu'il manque de stationnement lors du Festival de Jazz c'est comme chialler qu'il ne fait pas assez chaud l'hiver. -
Ouais. Juste pour clarifier, ce que je propose c'est pour les récidivistes . Personnellement, je garderais la limite à 0,08. Je vais terminer mon post en anglais car mon clavier m'énerve, il ne me laisse pas faire des accents correctement. I've studied the brain extensively. It's been a fascination of mine over the last 3-4 years. I can tell you that driving is a complex skill that takes into account a lot of variables, genetic factors and aptitudes. Men sometimes joke around that women are bad drivers. Well, there's actually some truth to that. As a result of evolution and gender roles, the male brain comes equipped with a superior sense of spatial awareness. A man has a better intuitive sense of what's going on around him. Women don't have a well developed spatial sense. (But don't worry ladies, you kick our asses in just about every other department ) Men's reflexes tend to be slightly faster, and men are able to focus on the task of driving better. Just things like staying perfectly 100% centered in a lane. Women tend to have a hard time with this. They'll stay in the lane, just not perfectly centered.. they'll waiver a bit, then make a correction. In essence, men possess a higher potential for driving skill. Lots of women are good drivers because though they may have a neurological disadvantage, they achieve their maximum potential. Unfortunately, men are also aggressive by nature... so all the advantages they may have are totally useless if the guy decides to run the red light and smashes into someone else... Whoa, anyway, i'm digressing a lot here. The men-women driving example i just gave is meant to show that driving ability varies. A lot. Partially due to genetics, partially due to practice and personality/behaviour. Someone with a BAC of 0.15 might still be a better driver and pose less of a risk than someone who's completely sober but has bad genetics and very little skill. The range is really that huge. I may not be a perfect driver, but all my life i've had very fast reflexes and good spatial awareness (that spatial sense is a big part of why i'm into 3D architecture and urban planning). So when i'm on the road at 4am and i had some drinks and i know my BAC is near 0.08, i don't think twice. I know i can drive well. I know my limit, but i know even past 0.08 i would drive well. Sober people in the car have remarked that i break extremely smoothly and stay perfectly centered even after a few consumptions. Anyway, i'm going into needless detail here... my point is, the limit should be 0.08 because everybody's different and everybody reacts differently to alcohol. It comes down to a judgment call. If you know yourself, and know you're able to drive well despite alcohol in your system, it's your decision. Many people are good drivers even when a little tipsy. If you make an incorrect judgment... then it's your fault and yours alone. I see this as being similar to jaywalking. If there's no car in sight, and you calculate your jaywalk perfectly and know without a shadow of a doubt that no car will possibly even come close to you, and you go for it, then good for you. Your risk, but your judgment. If your move is calculated perfectly, there is no problem anyway. But if you're a clutz and you know it, maybe you shouldn't try it..
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Drunk driving kills people. It must be stopped and it must be punished. There's nothing fascist about that.
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If it were up to me, for repeat offenders: Driver's license is nullified Vehicle is seized Driver cannot obtain a new license for 3 years, and only on the condition of: -Retaking driving lessons -Redoing his drivers tests -Taking a 20 hour course dealing with alcohol behind the wheel -200 hours of community service, helping amputated children that were hit by drunk drivers
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Vraiment stupide. Le Concorde doit passer de 24 à 18 étages (une coupure de 25%) mais le Hilton Garden Inn, situé à 48m du Concorde, lui passe sans problèmes?! Est-ce que le Concorde était vraiment si "démesuré" que ça?! On n'a qu'à regarder sur Google pour constater que le Concorde est une des plus petites tours du coin! Si tu veux me dire que'une tour de 35 étages à Rosemont c'est trop, je vais t'écouter... mais si tu proposes qu'une tour de 24 étages en plein centre-ville c'est "trop", et bien c'est carrément du ridicule ça là. The OCPM and its brethren are a complete joke.
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rive-sud Autoroute 30 - Discussion générale
Cataclaw a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans Infrastructures
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Bah, ce petit morceau de brique ne me derange pas. Je trouve le mur avec les 3 fenetres plutot correct. Chacuns ses gouts!
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Les murs aveugles, il fallait s'y attendre. C'est rien de surprenant...le 990 est une construction de type "wall-to-wall" donc ils ne pouvaient pas mettre de fenetres - pas avec le 900 qui s'en vient! Je ne comprend pas ta plainte concernant la façade avec 3 fenêtres par niveau... le style est identique a la façade principale. C'est quoi la difference?
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True, you've got a point there. Still, i'd prefer a name like "Altitude" to be reserved for something really tall, but i guess i'm nitpicking a little! Good project and i'm excited to see it go up!
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The only thing i don't like about this project -- is the name. To me, for a building to be called "Altitude", it ought to have 60+ storeys. Calling it "Altitude" as a reference to its height, when it has only 33 storeys, is a little... i don't know.. pretentious. A small small detail. Overall i love this project! Density! Quality developments! Woohoo!
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Interesting wikipedia list! In my mind, the 1000 is taller than the 1250.. when a "spire" is as thin as an antenna, like it is in this case, i consider it an "add-on". To me, the 1250 stops at the roof, so about 199m versus the 1000's 205m.
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Bonne nouvelle!!
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Salut Yara, content que t'es correct. Un peu decu que ta motivation pour venir faire un tour c'est de nous insulter collectivement sans justification... mais bon!
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What?! Dallas is way better than Houston. I've been visiting Dallas (and Houston) every summer now for 5 years straight. It's a great city, and it's evolving in many positive ways. They're doing a lot of infill projects, employing some smart growth principles, plus they're doing a huge revamping of their riverside. If you've never spent a lot of time in either city, then take it from me. I've spent countless hours in the 100F weather, sweating my butt off but doing it because i love walking in cities. I've covered every square inch of central Dallas and most of Houston. In my opinion Dallas is by far a more interesting, well-planned, more pleasant city.
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I've been to Houston and i can tell you, the downtown core is impressive. Lots of tall towers, clean, nice, etc. The only problem is, the downtown core is very very small. You step out of that core, and suddenly there are single-family homes, highways, and you feel like you're in a distant suburb. Montreal, though it may have shorter buildings, has a far greater density and far-reaching urban mass.
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What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this forum is now dumber for having read to it. May God have mercy on your soul.
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Congratulations! You are the most ridiculous person on the planet.
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T'inquietes pas Malek, je ne suis pas naif, je sais très bien que c'est une affaire d'opportunité économique. Ce n'est certainement pas du "densifier pour densifier". Mais en réalité, est-ce que ça change quelque chose? Que ça soit le capitalisme ou la planifcation urbaine, si la densification se fait, et bien tant mieux! Les gens ont le droit de faire de l'argent. Si ça peut densifier la ville en même temps, super!
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Personally, i don't mind suburbs, as long as they are of the medium-density type : Not as dense as the Plateau, but not as spread out as the ridiculously spaced-out homes in Atlanta, Georgia. There is a certain mid range that i find reasonable. The good news is that the principles of Smart Growth are showing up all over the place. Infill projects and higher density developments are turning our existing older suburbs into hybrid areas of reasonably medium-high density. Near my home in Longueuil, for instance, two single-family homes burned down a few years ago. In their place, they've built a 3-storey condo complex with 14 units. That's a 7 fold increase in density for that particular plot of land. All over town i see this same sort of thing going on all over the place. And it's a great thing!
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C'est un troll qui dit n'importe quoi. Il fait expres de brasser des choses et il ne croit pas à la moitié de ce qu'il dit. Mettez-le sur votre liste d'ignorés.
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Wow Monctezuma... Je vois maintenant.
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What? "It allows for the assigned value of things to dominate over their real value" ? ... isn't their real value their assigned value? What are you talking about? That doesn't make any sense. I'll try to explain it once more: Land costs money; it has value. To build a low-rise building on a high-cost plot of land is not viable. The costlier a piece of land, the greater the incentive to build high and make it a worthwhile investment. But anyway.. i think monctezuma is right. I believe i will add you to my ignore list. This is going nowhere.
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Economics is a big reason why people build tall towers. If a plot of land costs a lot of money, it's more worthwhile to build high than to buy lots of land and build low. This is a rather simple concept. Tall towers also increase density, which in turn makes public transportation economically feasible. These are really simple concepts... and they are mathematically irrefutable.
