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  1. well said Rossy, I could not agree with you more. The west-end (CSL, NDG, MTL-West etc...) is lacking a large piece of green space. With 10-15 years and a little investment, this golf course could be turned into an amazing place. I have played on the course a few times in the summer. Despite what the satellite images would have you believe, it is a remarkable place. There are enough defunct industrial and commercial areas nearby that it would be a shame to pave this little piece of paradise.
  2. hopefully we will one day we will have rear loading like they do in Europe. That way the STM can fully take advantage of these great buses.
  3. http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=48.858165,2.363777&spn=0.131914,0.439453&z=12 if you click on the link you will notice that La Defence is on the extreme left of the map, outside the boulevard peripherique
  4. Okay I think I was slightly misinterpreted. What I meant was that there are no skyscrapers inside the capitals . We were talking about Paris. As I said, La defence is not in Paris itself. What the french decided to do was to leave historic paris intact. A dense city with historic buildings, but no highrises. To build there new CBD, they used land outside (although close to) the capital. I'm not a historian of Paris, so I don't know if La defence was another town or farmland before. The point is that they used a different method of development that we use in NA. Here we rip up the city centers of their historic buildings and put in highrises. Manhatten is a good example of this. The island had many beautiful old buildings, but they have been for the most part torn down in order to build modern highrises. Its true that our cities are not as old as those in Europe. However, they still had some nice, dense walkable centers that were ripped apart to build up. In Europe they made the choice (for the most part) to leave their historic centers intact. The new highrises that you posted are built outside of the cities (or at least outside of the center)
  5. I'm sorry to say you guys have made a couple of comments in error. There are barely any skyscrapers in most european capitals. La defence is not actually in Paris. It is just outside Paris, very close, but not inside. The city did not allow the destruction of its historic buildings to build highrises (in paris there was a couple small exceptions awhile back, but this is no longer allowed). It is not true to say that in North America, there is no historic buildings in the center so we were free to build high. Its just that we didn't value our buildings so we destroyed them for highrises. If montreal valued its patrimony, down town district constructed on rene levesque and mcgill college would never have been built.
  6. The middle east used to be a very diverse place in terms of Religion(at least the monotheistic ones). This has changed quickly over the past half century and we are arriving at a point where there is almost complete Islamic demographic dominance. Jews were well represented in such countries as Morroco, Egypt, Iraq (and in smaller numbers in other ones). The tensions caused by the creation of the state of Israel and the ensuing wars led them to flee (or be expelled in certain circumstances). Christians were also well represented. They were the majority in Lebanon, and well represented in Egypt and Palestine. There numbers have been in great decline (especially relative to their muslim cocitizens). The Christians in the middle east had a much lower birth rate and a much higher emigration rate to the west. It is completly FALSE to say that muslim birthrates are not changing in the middle east. The middle east is undergoing a demographic transition as we speak. It is still a relatively youthful population and so it will increase for the next while. The rate of growth is slowing pretty quickly though. A good indicator of this is to look at the Muslim birthrate within the state of Israel. This was a group that traditionally had a very high birth rate. Over the past ten years their rate has begun to crash http://www.cbs.gov.il/yarhon/c1_e.htm scroll down to the bottom and look at the rate per 1000
  7. I actually believe Jean Talon is an excellent area to build a dense business district. It is the last major east-west street in the center of the island before the 40. Its actually not so far from downtown. It has excellent transportation access (A15, A40). It has a metro station (and the blue line could have had its terminus there instead of snowdon). The St Jerome train line also passes right by the area. This would have made an excellent second CBD. The connection with CSL is indeed a pity. CSL had a mayor for almost 30 years who was critical in developing the town, but had a stubborn opposition to connecting the two cavendishes, and connecting kildare to jean talon.
  8. Je pense que l'extension de la ligne blue vert le nord a plus de potentiel. Le boulevard Cavendish au nord de chemin de fer est a tres haute densite. Il y a plusieurs bloc apts approx 20 etages. En plus un terminus pourra etre construit sur le terrain du centre d'achat Cavendish. Un centre d'achat qui va etre detruit en parti bientot et donc offre un opportunite de construire avec tres haute densite.
  9. dunky

    Côte-St-Luc et environs

    you have some pretty good ideas. I think the priority should be on connecting the two Cavendishes. I have not heard any talk about providing better links between lachine/mtl west. I think the cavendish mall redevelopment if done right has a great potential. It is smack in the center of town and could become a sort of down town CSL. the great sized property would have to be broken up into a grid with a mix of housing units and commerces. the former blue bonnets land seems destined to be turned into dense housing. As it stands it will be issolated in a light industrial region. To provide contiguity with other residential areas and services, kildare must be linked to jean talon. It is easy to poke fun at CSL. It is a jewish majority suburb that is perhaps the most issolated geographically on the island of montreal. One can claim it is a ghetto or that its citizens are close minded. However, most of the issolation is geographic and not intentional. The city is surrounded on three sides by train yards and by a train line on the 4th. Its not as if we are putting up walls to separate us from our neighbours. To make road connections through the yards (to VSL or CDN) would require a very long underpass (several hundred meters to a KM). This is not really a project that is feasible for CSL to do on its own. The city of Montreal needs to come on board to the project. They clearly dont seem to be interested in this at the moment. So one really shouldnt blame CSL for the issolation. If Montreal wants to cough up its share of the funds, the project will go through
  10. C'est vraiment dommage qu'il n'y a pas un entente entre l'amt et la STM. le Boulevard Pie IX a le potential detre un des corridors le plus importants pour le transport en commun sur l'ile de Montreal. Je pense que le problem sur le nombre des autobus est simple a regler. On peut faire la meme chose que la STM fait avec le metro à Laval. Peut etre seulement la moitié des autobus sur la nouvelle ligne BRT va continuer à Laval.
  11. Je pense que l'interieur est mieux que les anciennes versions. Il y a un peut plus d'espace pour passer quand tu rentres dans l'autobus.
  12. je ne crois pas qu'il y a un vrai chance que ca va etre construit. Mais J'avoue que cest un idee formidable!!!!!
  13. that seems like a lot of money for only a few thousand passengers.
  14. I dont know if I like this decision. One of the great things about Westmount is the views that each house on the mountain has. This could set off people blocking each others views, one after another.
  15. cest vraiment dommage que tu peut pas prendre un velo sur les bus ou le train. Mais si tu est vraiment en forme, tu peut aller de montreal à st jerome en velo. Cette été, jai fait mtl-st sauveur en 7 heures. Cest sure que cest pas pour tous le monde, mais cest vraiment cool
  16. c'est pas mal comme idée mais je sais pas si il y a assez de demande pour un lien entre le monteregie et les laurentides
  17. I agree However for the time being I dont think Trams will be put on lines such as Cote des neiges and Parc. These routes are not properly served with regular buses, so the stretch buses should be a nice improvement.
  18. oui t'as raison, la rive sud l'avait Mais pas la STM
  19. ya my girlfriend told me she saw one today they gave a little mention of it on the stm website
  20. Did anyone see the accordian buses that are being tested on cote des neiges and Parc?
  21. dunky

    TGV: Liaison Windsor - Québec

    But you dont have to waste time in line at the airport!!!
  22. dunky

    TGV: Liaison Windsor - Québec

    meme si tu as raison il ny a pas assez de demande au Quebec on doit travailler avec Ontario pour un raiseau en commun
  23. dunky

    TGV: Liaison Windsor - Québec

    I would love to see a high speed rail developed however having the two highways are not overkill they do not exist soley to connect quebec and montreal there are many towns and cities along both sides of the river. Each side thus needs its own highway
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