SameGuy

I keep seeing this pop up to the top of the main "Going Up" forum, and I keep thinking that Griffintown, Sud-Ouest and PSC should all be one sub-forum. Very little other than the actual canal separates this project from the rest of GFT/Burgundy/St-Henri; it's practically at the St-Gabriel locks and 30m across the water from Parc-des-Éclusiers.

Great map! I usually refer to the Québec Railways Map Project Google Earth layer, but the labelling on this one is easier to follow. I think we are more or less saying the same thing, that it seems there's almost no will in QC to pursue the acquisition of under-exploited freight subs for passenger transit use -- whether for regional rail or rapid transit/metro.

Been saying this for years. Radial-pattern transit is for rush-hour commuter service, and overall is squandered investment in a large metropolis in the 21st century.

Oui, désolé… chu vieux. 😂

Any idea when the dealership is getting demolished?

SB is still going to be from a developer with an Italian name?

The lighting in this series of pics highlights how badly Cathédrale needs her copper roof. Also? 1501 is damn nice from this angle.

Honestly, I don’t mind if we continue to limit heights of buildings in the city to 200 m or 232 m or whatever, as long as we can have more Avenue/KPMG/Deloitte and fewer TDC/Rocca/Icône.

I was quite confused before 😂

Just Streetviewing around and I’m reminded just how dated the PointZero buildings at 980-990-1000 St-Antoine O have already looked for what seems like decades, and how much more pitiful they’ll appear in the next five years or so. Surely a couple of taller new integrations can go up there to bridge South Block with 750 Peel?

Exactement

Maybe M. Émond and his lieutenants should visit and learn a few things about geology and engineering… 🤔

I’m not saying that every single lot in the city should be occupied by a maximum-height skyscraper. But to me, a church is a church is a church. It’s their land, if they find the project acceptable then I don’t see the problem with it. But saying the project can’t go ahead because it blocks this view or that view means that every second lot should remain unoccupied so as not to block a view of one building or another, or to prefer one building over another.

Influenced by Mies and completed not long before he died. It is sublime, like Westmount Square.

Like. if that one single lot should be protected, the urban plan should have noted the exception. The CCU can tell them the proposed building doesn’t meet certain zoning regulations — the density ratio, height, and even certain subjective requirements — but if the lot itself is zoned to max height and density, they shouldn’t be able to reduce those limits.

Cheap crack too

Lol yep. Got me! 😂

Thanks for doing the big tour! All these photos are wonderful for those of us who don’t get to town very often.

Well ok, if we’re going by “lowest available fare,” the Frecciarossa is just €18 and there are 42 departures a day! Here, if we want convenience, one can find sub-$100 fares on Porter and AC Express, park and go through security at Dorval, and walk from YTZ to the Rogers Centre in less time than it takes for the train to get from Dorval to Union.

Exactly. Subsidized. 540 km (Roma-Nord to Milano-Ovest, for example) at Roman gas prices today is $87, plus $62 in highway tolls (on top of the astronomical sales taxes on cars and crazy prices to register and insure a car in Italy). It’s substantially cheaper for the average person to take the Frecciarossa HSR and be there in three hours.

I think you missed my point entirely. I said we unfailingly subsidize roads and automobiles above transit on this continent. I’ve already paid costs you itemized whether I hop on the 20/401 to Toronto or not; the costs to run the national passenger railway are also paid for whether I use it or not. But in Europe and Asia, proportionally much more is spent by the state on mass transit than on the highways, while individuals pay much more to use the roads than they do mass transit. It’s not up for debate. Spending billions on VIA while still subsidizing individual automobile use will simply never be a solution.

Right, as I keep harping on about, “public transit” is a social service and as such shouldn’t be based on profitability. Municipal public transit also has no direct alternative at a similar cost to the end user. It is a social service. VIA service in the corridor, on the other hand, isn’t public transit, it has competition from private companies in the form of bus and air lines (along with private cars), and it charges quite a bit more money than public transit would — the buses are usually quicker and cheaper, and airlines are usually faster as well. But the plain fact is that only 16,000 people a day use VIA in the corridor and any investment in it to make it “better” can never be proportional to any predictable ridership increases, precisely because it’s cheaper and/or easier by car or bus or air in this country. Remember, we choose to subsidize road users on this continent, first, last and always. A comfortable, smooth, 480 km train ride from Rome to Milan might cost €40 and take a little over three hours; by car it would be €100 in petrol, €36 in tolls, and take five hours in a cramped sub-compact. Here I can hop in my comfortable Subaru and be in Toronto in five hours on $40 of unleaded, but the train — if it’s on time — would be 5½ hours and cost $100+.

Lol. Bullseye.