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I swam (wearing a thin wetsuit and snorkeling gear) in the Olympic rowing basin on Île-Notre-Dame around 30 years ago as part of one of the teams in the first (only?) Montréal laser light show competition. 😁

Mods, would it be possible to branch off the non-sequitur discussions to a separate thread? I keep opening threads hoping to get updates on specific subjects only to be confronted with three new pages of posts arguing about general zoning, policy or politics.

Jeez Costco will be even worse than it already is

Doigts, orteils, autres choses croisées... I’ve been off since March!

It’s harder to see from the express lanes, but did you notice the guy wires stabilizing the forms for the station platform foundation?

The last image is fantastic. 👍🏼 And TdLB still looks out of this world.

Maybe it’s the emergency stairs for Édouard-Montpetit lol 😂

Honestly, optimistic predictions show a return to (record) 2019 figures for YUL by 2023, but even the more pragmatic estimates figure 75% of 2019 levels by the end of 2023 — equivalent to 2014 traffic, when YUL was already very busy and in desperate need of a rapid transit solution. Getting CoViD-19 under control in due time will let us adapt to the “new normals,” which includes a return to travel for both business and leisure. PS: @ERJ-Boy do you fly for Acey?

Excellent! Merci

So, donc Smith et de la Commune. 😜

Oui, c’est l’heure maintenant. On attend que certains propriétés soient redéveloppés sous peu. Peut-être pas à l’échelle de Burquitlam, mais... https://thecityoflougheed.com/ Il ya une station du SkyTrain (un point de transfert entre les deux lignes principales) et un énorme terminus d’autobus. Maintenant, imaginez une version de Royalmount planifié Comme “City of Lougheed,” mais à Bois-Franc (après l’extension de la Ligne Orange), ou au dessus de la station Snowdon... J’imagine que plusieurs centres d’achats ici puissent bénéficier d’un “revamp” total, comme (dans l’ouest) Fairview, Place Vertu, Les Jardins Dorval, Galérie de Sources, RioCan Kirkland, etc etc L’argent parle. http://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4260054

Confirmation, the Kirkland station platforms will be above the former catch basin/dog run east of Jean-Yves, and not over the former RioCan Kirkland lot where Madison was torn down. I would imagine the station infrastructure will descend to the RioCan side, where the parking, bus loop and kiss-and-cry will be located.

Maybe check with @bad_monday about that. 😉

Wow, that's pretty awesome, but instead of the jump cuts I'd have preferred a Hyperlapse to show how it all went.

I’m only guessing here, but I expect the new Pierrefonds-Roxboro station to be quite a bit closer to Gouin (ie about 300m west of where it is now, and away from Commercial) which makes it closer to the buildings at Meighen and the MDUs at boul de Pierrefonds, Pavillon and des Sources/Pl Riviera. Similarly, the 100m long platform at Sunnybrooke will likely be implanted directly at Sunnybrooke, remaining about the same distance from Pfds-Rox it is now. À-Ma-Baie would make use of space just east of Alexander where the old stop was, and doesn’t need the incentive parking of the other two, so it would be around 900m from Sunnybrooke - further apart than Brossard-du Quartier, Griffintown-Centrale-McGill, Canora-VdMR, and just slightly closer together than the rest of the station pairs from BF to A40. Toupin would be about 1300 m from the new BF station. I’d posit that “Cloverdale” has higher density within a 1 km radius of the Alexander crossing than any other DM branch station west of BF (other than Sunnybrooke), as well as des Sources, Kirkland (for the foreseeable future) and Anse-À-L’Orme. The termini are obviously intended to serve as park-and-ride nodes, but I’d offer that as a light metro with two- or four-car trains, that we shouldn’t discount the need for stations based solely on the distances between them but rather the needs of the the communities along the branches. Should we abandon every second stop on the Green Line through downtown because they are so close together? And yes, Toupin/Keller. It’s in a reasonably built-up neighbourhood, and a short walk from the centre of the dense Bois-Franc/Nouveau-St-Laurent development. The 164 and 170 would be busy indeed.

Maybe they’ll come to Mirabel via Antonov 😁

Both areas’ 1 km catchments are more densely populated than that of every station west of BF except Sunnybrooke. Alexander used to have a station (À-Ma-Baie). There is also potential for even more TOD around both. But they’re spending bajillions for a station on Île-Bigras, for what? Fewer than 1000 residents, low density and no room for development, while the Ste-Dorothée station is 700 meters away. It’s not like they’re simply repurposing the old Bigras station; it’s new. À-Ma-Baie and Parc-Noël should have been considered before even thinking to put a station on Bigras.

I like that the rendering shows the only road access to this development is via a mall parking lot.

Chambly?? 😂😂

C'est ce que j’pensais! 😂 “Sometimes a house is just a house.”

Man, that view is going to change!

This notion also gives hope for future infill stations, both aerial (Bassin, Marc-Cantin) and ground-level (Christmas Park, Alexander).

Lol no answer yet for your rolling stock question... 😉 Hopefully we get some advance notice. I wonder if they will be FOB Vancouver? Or straight here?

Yes.

Deco is classic. Merit is very 1930s Midtown, in a good - and modern - way.