Doctor D

4 hours ago, Enalung said:

The so called McGill REM station is almost at the halfway point between the Peel and McGill station on the green line, so yeah, that's definitely Peel. On the orange line, it intersects with Bonaventure. I also considered that alignment myself. I didn't retain it on my own maps because I feel that it places the connection with the metro way too far to the west of the city center. The problem that I see is that we would likely have the same arguments against a REM under René Lévesque being put forward against this alignment. I think that "put it underground" is where the real fight lies. Assuming we can get past that hurdle, a lot of possibilities open up as far as the alignment goes. The most obvious would be to put the final station closer to Gare Centrale and the orange line so that we could have a far more direct connection with the rest of the network.

Wait, I'm confused: why does it have to go that far north? Why not build it literally under RL starting at Mansfield? That makes it equidistant from Bonaventure and the "so called McGill REM station", a short walk to either through the existing  underground.

4 hours ago, BilMo said:

The concept I'm showing below is a variation to what Internist is describing.

Rem B stays underground as it intersects with Rem A in Griffintown. It then continues to Peel Street with a station that connects to the western end of the Bonaventure metro station.

 

Peel metro station?

Interesting and useful but Notre Dame looks more like a highway in this rendering, not an urban boulevard. 

6 hours ago, andre md said:

There are major job centers in the west of the island also in east anjou, st-leonard and also along the metropolitan area. 

There are important hospitals in the north center. Ste justine, jewish general, ste mary. There is the university of montreal.  

There is the ahuntsic cegep, the college grasset near the metro. There is the claude robillard center.

We can also add the jarry stadium near the metro castelneau.

The mile -ex is in full redevelopment. We can add the chabanel sector. 

In short, there are still enough possible destinations. 

 

 

 

Densify residential areas around Blue Line stations in the east and complete the western extension towards NDG and it will become a more useful part of the network. I lived in NDG but worked at JFK in St Michael and it was great: a straight line, no matter what the weather was like. The only downside was the long waits between trains.

Going up bit by bit

So they complete the base before starting second tower?

On 2021-01-09 at 7:39 PM, twa said:

It'll be more or less hidden behind the BNC from a lot of angles in the southwest. Here's a little before/after from this angle, the TdlB is just out of shot behind the Broccolini towers.  

Where is this view?

1 hour ago, FrancSoisD said:

Here!

Since Ivanhoé-Cambridge, the immo arm of the CDPQ, owns the PVM and Queen Elizabeth, it is obvious that they are looking for the most straight path possible between the East and the RB station. Not to mention that their lines must cross the most free land near the future stations (land collection within a radius of 500 or 1000 m from the stations), which would not be possible west of the Molson sector, the Solano then the Viger de Jesta project being about to be finalized!

The detour via the VxMtl is only an overkill tourist whim of our national Denis, without real estate potential, then preventing a possible western extension of this line, that one could guess that the CDPQ-I is working to design on RL O then branching off along either the CP tracks or the future route 136 on the outskirts of the CCA ...

And even a tram would also be overkill on DlC, where the 715 bus runs mostly almost empty (pre-pandemic), at ... 30 mins ... Free shuttles circulating in at least 2-3 axes (DlC, St-Lau, ND / St-J?) Would appear to me to be much more convivial during the tourist season!

A friend of mine who cycles quite early between Longueuil and downtown for work, every now and then gets delayed 10-20 minutes at the crossing under the Bonaventure Hwy whenever the CN merchandise train passes very slowly around 4: 00-4: 30 am!

I've been caught by this train Sunday afternoon, between 2:30 and 4:00 (cuts off bike path).

I brought up this idea a couple of months ago on the Eastern REM (line B) - General discussion and someone pointed out that it would cut off pedestrian traffic to and from the river. There are currently four entrances from de la Commune to the river so one solution might be to create pedestrian bridges over the tracks, commonly seen in England.

Peter Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100164062  credit 

Why not? But don't those cranes cost a lot to rent?

In LaSalle?

Where can they fit a park?

On 3/19/2021 at 8:59 PM, Rocco said:

A nice addition to Square Victoria

Great photos - thanks! It does fit in well; not too imposing but fills in the space nicely while creating a staircase effect up to Place Victoria. 

Going up slowly (March 20th)

It's about time! A metro station with low density but large tracts of unused land. Time to densify.

Merci!

Do you really feel it is such an architecturally interesting building that we want to respect the integrity of the existing building.? 

Opens up prime real estate on RL. 

Merci

Does this affect the existing YWCA? 

Are they trying to keep the facade?

Sure, if you rent a room at Hotel Bonaventure.

Urban pioneering? Right across form where Quartier des lumières will be.

On 3/1/2021 at 11:14 PM, Né entre les rapides said:

I cannot deny the existence of the large peak centered on King & Bay, but when you go up Younge Street and "discover" the one at the intersection of Younge & Bloor with towers higher than anything in Montreal, then much further north (past the 401) at Sheppard Avenue, without forgetting the mini peaks at St. Clair Avenue then at Eglinton Avenue between the last two mentioned, we have "misery" at design a unique "staircase effect". It is rather a rosary in question. We climb a staircase, we go down on the other side, we walk a little, then here is a second staircase to climb, we go back down, we go up, etc. If we were traveling at high speed, we would have more of a roller coaster feeling. And all this is without counting the protrusion of the heart of Mississauga to the west on the bar of the inverted "T". Seen from a great height, you can "grasp" the whole thing at a glance, and what appears is not a single vertex - which means, if you are a staircase enthusiast, that 'it would take several ...      

We could have fun, in a separate subject, comparing our impressions of the different skylines of the cities we know. There is much more than the staircase effect to discover and admire. And often there is more than one vantage point to consider; at least in the case of Montreal, the many photos you publish attest to this.  

 

One thing I observed running a marathon in TO that ran down Younge Street is that they have have the usual downtown cluster but then they have "poles" around many of the metro stations on the Younge-University line. Coming down from the north (the run was literally downhill for at least 5 KM, you could easily tell where the metro stations were located until you hit the downtown core. Similar phenomenon in Prague.

On 2/26/2021 at 9:33 AM, acpnc said:

This kind of eclecticism is found more precisely in London than in Paris. A spirit which is no stranger to the history of Montreal after the conquest and which has prevailed until today.

Interesting perspective, so is Montreal a post-colonial city?