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I think this project is exactly right for that part of the Pointe. Higher price bracket home owners in Pointe Saint Charles will become more of a factor near the canal and in some of the architecturally significant historical buildings in the area. The patchwork of people from different income brackets, something that is becoming more common in many areas of the city is great. It keeps neighbourhoods lively and multi-dimensional.

A little proof that less floors doesn't have to mean an inferior project?

Maybe I'm crazy, but personally I like it. In any case, alluding to what Cataclaw said, it's always necessary to wait for the finished product. If you all recall, while the Westin was being built many posters thought it was going to be ugly; when the project was complete opinions started to change. Also, the adjacent lot will not be vacant forever and whenever that tower does get built it will probably make for a great contrast.

Je trouve que la ligne est mince, en quelques sortes, nous l'avons notre métro hors-terre. Il s'appel le train de banlieue.

 

Il faudrait peut-être simplement revoir la grille tarifaire. Exemple, pour les gens de l'ouest, si j'embarque à partir de Roxboro ou Pierrefonds, la CAM régulière serait assez. Donc pas obligé d'acheter une carte CAM plus chère.

 

Ça ne fonctionnerait pas ça?

I think the service is too infrequent for it to be considered an above-ground metro. Anything that has an interval between arrivals more than 20 minutes during service hours would be hard to call a metro.

Now to just deal with all the communist-bloc type architecture to the West. A can of paint would be a good start.

Great project that needed to happen. And with all the renovations going on on Ridgewood that area is getting better and better. Also a big plus for bringing more people to the commercial section of Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges.

C'est parce que depuis l'incident dont parle Habsfan, maintenant Team Canada interdit tout drapeau autre que celui du Canada pour ne plus créer de polémiques

I don’t see how a ban on provincial flags somehow invalidates the fact that Quebec athletes took the effort to flaunt the maple leafs on their gloves to the camera after their runs. Furthermore, while I disagree with it, I don’t think that “crucifixion” by the media regarding the Quebec flag was so illogical either. Let’s not kid our ourselves here, the Quebec flag is far more than a provincial flag, far more than a symbol of Quebec pride and nationalism; it is the most resounding symbol of the Quebec sovereignty movement. And for some, the matter of Quebec sovereignty cannot be separated from its flag. An Ontario flag would not have had the same impact and you both know very well why.

The victim card played by people on both sides of the fence is tiring. Maybe if people complained a little less and instead tried to find solutions we'd get somewhere eventually. The failures of official bilingualism in English Canada, due in part by the extent that their own language is protected against in Quebec (to a great extent by people who want to separate from their country in the first place), is hardly an insurmountable obstacle. If the Europe of the early 1940's was able to become the Europe of 2010, I highly doubt the language issue in Canada is an impossible problem to tackle if the will existed. Perhaps it's an issue of chicken and egg, but I highly doubt bilingualism in the ROC will suddenly warm the hearts of most soveriegnists to the idea of Canada.

A place where we'll actually feel like we belong. A place we can call home!

Many Quebecois have a country they call home; it's called Canada. If sovereignists don't feel comfortable living in that country that's fine with me. But lets not act like if every word spoken in English during the opening ceremonies was repeated in perfect French that hardcore sovereignists would have any change of heart.

The will to be part of Canada must exist before the will to fix Canada can have any impact.

While I don't know them personally, it didn't seem the three Quebecois who represented Canada at the men's moguls event had any problem flaunting those maple leafs at the palms of their gloves. Being proud Canadians is their prerogative. Just the same, wanting not to be part of Canada is yours.

The street is paved and the median is in place. Tree planting will happen in the next little while.

I didn't notice this posted yet, so here you go:

Cette partie de la ville est vraiment en déclin...

And that's why, as has been said several times on this board, mtlurb needs to become more involved in the development of our city. The passion we have for this city, the passion we have for development and as such the passion we have for the development of this city is wasted on us not becoming more involved in the process. I think we'll all had enough of mediocrity and enough of the decay of many of the sights that would help bring this city to a new-found greatness amongst the cities of the world.

Considering its location in the middle of the Quartier de Vie and subsequently its proximity to three of the four (and soon to be all four) nature museums, what about turning it into a museum like a physics and chemistry museum based on natural occurrences and phenomena (optical illusions and the like), similar to parts of the Ontario Science Centre.

I'd like to see Concordia put up a giant vertical screen in between the East facing windows of that big apartment building on the North-West side of de Maisoneuve and Guy. It could be part school-related information and part ads to pay for it. You would be able to see it from a good distance away and I think it would really help develop the 'quartier' feeling of the Quartier Concordia.

Old factory out, new condos in...

 

When will we see a metro line go down east-west between the blue and the green to service all these high-density areas?

Something like this?

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108856777922929088479.00047bd0fc33b8bdc783b&ll=45.529922,-73.54248&spn=0.09909,0.338173&t=h&z=12&lci=transit

The line I propose would service that area, connect to the new Pie IX express bus route, reduce traffic on the orange and green lines busiest stops during rush hour all the while servicing the Havre de Montreal as well as Mile End.

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Par Monctezuma 31/12/2009 :

pour poursuivre la discussion sur un éventuel développement du métro dans le Mile-End, allez ici :

http://mtlurb.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14659

I dunno .. cities like vancouver and toronto who's development seems much less hindered by the so called nimbys frequently rate just has high if not higher that montreal on 'quality of life' charts.. i doubt they deserve that much credit for that. maybe some, but not most.

Consider what the city would be like if their was no protest to development? The McGill ghetto would be an extension of the mediocre buildings between Sherbrooke and Docteur Penfield which replaced historic homes. Look at Rene Levesque west of the CCE. Look at Shaugnessy Village (our very own Communist Bloc architectual haven). Developers have a lot of good ideas in mind that don't always pan out in the end. Development needs to be smart and necessary. The if you build it they will come mentality does not always work. Attract business and come up with quality projects and then we can discuss building bigger and higher. NIMBYs at times try to assure that there is quality alongside 'necessary' quantity.

of course it wouldnt be very good for the owners and the longer term consequences probably not that good but then again .. .. who knows..

Rents are already extremely low when you compare it to other cities. Key now is to become interesting to specific industries, which you can see happening in gaming (although with considerable competition from Quebec City). I think that health-related (crossing fingers on CHUM, MUHC, gare de triage Outremont, ESPUM and Quartier de la Santé), aeronautics, as well as fashion and its related industries also have large growth potential.

As for the topic of pro-development vs. anti-development. Both sides, I believe, have good points and that the solution is a happy-medium similar to what we're working with today in Montreal. Quality of life in Montreal is exceptional and I think it's due in part, as much as I may not want to admit it, to the NIMBYs that annoy so many of us so much of the time.

Bravo! Tu as entièrement raison! :applause:

As someone who works in commercial real estate in Montreal and strongly condones private investment in the city’s downtown core, I would say that there is nothing wrong with dreaming so long as you’re realistic when all is said and done. When’s the last time a private developer built an office tower downtown? How many projects have been approved or proposed but are on hold due to a lack of prospective tenants? How many parking lots still exist downtown? How many vacant spaces exist in our current office towers? While there is nothing wrong with having ambitious visions of building tall, one simply needs to realize the time is not now.

I’m extremely pleased with this project. One of my biggest criticisms of Montreal 2025 is that it is too concentrated on the western portion of the Ville Marie borough. While the downtown core does deserve lots of special attention, in order to make Montreal a truly world class city for the 21st century several key projects must be undertaken in every single electoral district never mind every single borough . And this project will really help bolster LaSalle’s profile. Next project I’d like to see for that area is the bridge connecting Rue Galt in Verdun to Boulevard Marguerite-Bourgeoys in Nun’s Island. With restrictions to cars during rush hour periods I think the bridge could really help make Wellington a gem of a street.

I'm with WestAust on this. Of course it depends on the area and how suburban the project really is but there are times when purely urban development is not always the best choice. For example, I'm actually a proponent of the suburban-type development on St-Jacques-Ouest near Guy that MTLSkyline was talking about. While it is extremely close to downtown, neighbourhood-wise it's a lot more part of Petite Bourgogne. That being said the suburban-type development in and around that area of St-Jacques have really helped convert Petite Bourgogne from one of Montreal's most dangerous areas to a great well sought out neighbourhood to live in.

As Vincent Chiara mentioned in an article in Espace magazine Montreal needs to become a convention city. With our entertainment, our restaurants, the cost of our condos and our hotel rooms - it makes absolute sense. Projects like this can only solidify that.

I'd love to see that circular tower in that exact spot today just turned the other way due to the Transat Tower blocking most of the view from the south.

My suggestion: Change the name of Saint Urbain in between the two portions of de Maisonneuve to de Maisonneuve; then change the names of Saint Urbain south of de Maisonneuve (as well as the section between Saint Antoine and Saint Jacques known as Côte de la Place d'Armes) to Saint Sulpice (its names south of Saint-Jacques).

L'urbanisation de ce secteur se poursuit et c'est une très bonne nouvelle en soi. Avec le développement du Faubourg Québec, du futur site de l'hôtel Viger et de Radio-Canada, c'est une véritable revitalisation de l'est de la ville qui s'opère lentement mais sûrement.

This added with the development around Papineau metro should really help Ste. Catherine Est develop even further.

C'est ça un centre-ville vivant où l'activité se poursuit et diffère selon les heures du jour ou de la nuit. La mixité bureaux, hôtel, commerces et résidences est la meilleure formule et nous sommes chanceux d'avoir préservé cette animation qui a disparu, sauf exception, dans la plupart des grandes villes nord-américaines et même canadiennes.

I was just in Toronto on business and the 30 minute + walk from Bay and Wellington (Business District) to Bay and Bloor (Shopping District) was a huge contrast from my usual walk of 3 minutes from Sherbrooke to Ste Catherine.

What puzzles me is many of the people who are advocating destroying the Bell Centre and starting from new so that the tracks could extend directly to Windsor station are the same people crying "green" and "sustainable". Destroying a relatively new building that cost millions to build and is in good condition is not "green" nor is it "sustainable".