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QFT. Because once wasn’t enough.

Anne’s span over the eastbound Street-Marie overpass is already complete and the cables have been released, ready to move over the western runoff basin! And BOY is that station platform high!

Agree completely. Evolving from an unsynchronized, radial-pattern, rush-hour-commuting collection of train lines and bus routes to an interconnected network of show-up-and-go transit systems will be a game-changer for this metropolis. Disclaimer: I stopped taking the DM daily in 1996 (after nearly 20 years!) and stopped taking it altogether around 2000. We moved to western Pierrefonds in 1996 and my wife drove 15 minutes to the Beaconsfield station for a 40-minute daily train ride downtown. She even kept doing it after changing jobs and moving from IBM Marathon down to 10 Duke (de la Commune) until the train became too unreliable in the early-aughts, and she availed of Discreet’s free parking and became yet another West Island sheep on the highway.

Is there an SQDC outlet at Travaux Publics?

Merci @js.bonin

Gawd I remember just how often we’d sit and swelter in the tunnel just after/before Portal Heights for who-knows-what reason… setting switches? Another train? Power failure? After the line’s conversion in 1995, it still stopped inside the mouth of the tunnel on a regular basis, even in spite of all the line’s improvements (but at least the MR’s ventilation and heating were good). If REM can get even close to their projected transit times (and why wouldn’t they? It’s an automated metro!), it will be a much shorter ride for anyone on the original DM line. The CN-operated trains took 36-50 minutes from Central to Roxboro — EMUs quicker than loco-hauled — and the Bombardier-operated AMT trains took marginally less, around 33 minutes at rush hour on the few days it wasn’t delayed. 24 minutes? This will be incredible.

Terrific response. Thank you. Gonna steal “office plankton” btw.

And before anyone says anything, I think the Anse-à-l’Orme station is dumb, the des Sources station is poorly located, there should be a station in the Baie-d’Urfé industrial park, that this should be planned to be extended to the A20 right of way and Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, and that a light metro to Bigras-SteDo-Moulin-DM is silly (but was part of the bargain), and that yes, regular readers here are bored of my musings on the subject. 😉

Ugh here we go again. La population de l'Ouest-de-l'Île, sans compter Saint-Laurent, est d'environ 230 000 habitants sur seulement 150 km², dont plus de la moitié est constituée des plus grands espaces verts de l'île de Montréal et de milliers d'hectares de propriétés industrielles et commerciales, incluant l’aéroport à Dorval. La densité de population de l'Ouest-de-l’Île est de 1500/km². Par contre, la population de l'ensemble de la MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges n'est que de 140 000 habitants. Répartis sur 850 km², la densité n'est que de 175/km². Nous n'avons pas à répéter sans cesse pourquoi nous ne devrions pas dépenser des milliards pour envoyer un métro léger sur plusieurs kilomètres de terres agricoles et de parcs vides vers de petites banlieues éloignées de la ville, qui peuvent être parfaitement desservies par un service efficace de train de banlieue et des bus. I’ve already stated several times that the new hospital is a wonderful opportunity to improve the lives of not just those in Vaudreuil, but also in the West Island, and that I think transit to and from the Presqu’île can and should be vastly improved. That doesn’t change my stance on why it’s just stupid to clamour for REM light metro extensions to Vaudreuil, Chambly, Mirabel or St-Hyacinthe.

My musings were based on planning for heavier trains from the outset. 😊

Même avec la réduction des places par train, il y aura un départ toutes les 5 minutes de DM aux heures de pointe, donc plus de places assises disponibles pour tous les passagers embarquant de DM à BF (sans tenir compte du confort des sièges). Mais de peur que les plaignants n'oublient, ce sera un service de métro "show-up-and-go", donc il n'y aura pas "le crush" de navetteurs essayant tous de prendre des sièges au départ de 7h24 ou whatever. Le gros bonus pour ceux qui embarquent dans les stations de BF à CaNoRa, c'est qu'un train sur deux viendra d'Aéroport (garanti presque vide) ou d'Anse (assez vide jusqu'à la construction des TOD), donc ces passagers seront certainement plus à l'aise, et bénéficieront d'un service beaucoup plus rapide (métro au lieu du train de banlieue lent).

We usually only ever hear the terrible experiences, like what Terry DiMonte shared so much over the years he lived there. He was a neighbour and I was friends with his younger brother Dean, in 1970s Pierrefonds, but I don’t abide most of his NIMBY and anti-urban comments anyway. 😄

I agree with @_mtler_. We have a collection of many fine examples of Beaux-Arts here, this should be cleaned up to the same level of handsomeness as MBAM, Sun Life, old Stock Exchange, Dominion Square.

I didn’t say they wouldn’t build their own stores in there. But in other cities, high end brands typically have flagship stores on the high streets or main streets of the cities, and they may have outlets in malls elsewhere that have easy access. Yorkdale was brought up before, a 60 year old mall that has rebranded itself as a luxury destination over the last 30 years or so. But Yorkdale has a long history in the area, and it has a huge parking lot and easy highway access. Suburban Toronto bourgeoisie likely shop there for their luxury brand name items. But here, there will be no huge parking lot and no easy access from the highway. As others have said before, it’s impossible to envision wealthy people in this city — let alone tourists — taking disjointed public transit to a mall in an industrial wasteland to go buy Louis Vuitton or Tiffany products. Can we return to the topic of this thread?

In Sydney, the adventure leaves a tourist centre staging area inside a building under the access ramp, and joins the superstructure from underneath at the south shore abutment and then climbs up through service ladders and access points, past the road and rail deck and up onto the superstructure. Once it reaches the zenith at ~124 metres above the harbour, the tour crosses to the other side and descends.

Le 1420?

Comparing Toronto to Montreal never works out.

Sorry but that’s exactly why I think the “luxury goods mall” is a dismal idea at that location. Rich people simply don’t go out of their way to suburban malls for high end stuff. If LVMH puts their flagships in a suburban mall, while competitors establish their primary boutiques downtown — as luxury brands do in in every other city — you can bet good money on where people of means (local or visiting) will go to shop while doing all the other stuff @Né entre les rapides listed above.

Lol

This is the only clue I’ve found so far, a nondescript project “commercial unit and 33 condos” on the site of Propers Construction.

A long-neglected woods between the old Dunkin Donuts and the Goodyear Tire & Auto Centre on Pierrefonds is suddenly being cleared, but I can’t find any potential projects mentioned here (or “there”) nor any CCU stuff at the borough. Does anybody know?

Hehehe Francesco

Cool, Johan, merci!

Very cool shot! Without the vehicles in the foreground it would be very dramatic. I love it.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the crews are working with each other, rather than against each other.