SameGuy

Density doesn’t mandate visibility or originality.

2½ and 1 Or do you mean the bottom of the diamond and the “fold”? In which case, yeah, also different. More square-footage in reality. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Amazing pics. Merci, @chico! 👍🏼

C'est juste dommage qu'avec ce budget énorme, ils ne puissent pas se permettre de transplanter des arbres matures à l'aide de machines plus grosses.

I don’t know if the angles are much different between the model and reality, but one level ≠ two and a half levels.

In reality, the flatter part of the “diamond” appears to rise only one level (we know they’re not floors in that section), while in the model it’s roughly two and a half levels, and in the multitude of original renders it was five levels.

You use more franglais than I do.

Je suis peut-être nono, mais pas besoin d’être Claude Fauchet pour reconnaître à quel point la syntaxe choisie par le journaliste était médiocre. 😝

Please demeurons sur le sujet du fil.

I guess we need a “sarcasm” font. La phrase est mal écrite, alors j’ai poké un peu de fun.

Why was the Québec government menacing this species…? 🤔

Hopefully a modern people-mover replaces the Minirail in the eventual master plan for the park — and not some stupid autonomous shuttle driving along the paved paths.

Merci, Normand! 🙂

How many floors of podium before the skinny part starts?

@DENIJS Excellent.

I think we are getting ahead of ourselves here. Yellow line improvements and extensions have been warranted and wanted for more than 30 years, yet suggestions keep getting thrown to the back burner every couple of years. Laval has also needed structural improvements in rapid transit since the 70s, and the three-station Orange line foray has been largely insufficient since the extension’s inauguration. Rapid transit connecting the airport and Brossard to downtown had also been discussed for decades, and has only been made possible due to a temporary wrinkle in space-time in 2016 that was exploited by the province’s pension fund manager to partially privatize public transit. The necessary Blue extension had also been discussed for decades. Yes, the Bois-Franc extension is necessary and overdue, and a further extension into the densest parts of Laval would undeniably benefit both cities and the CMM, but just as with the Blue extension, I’ll only believe it’s happening when shovels are actually in the ground and building it — no matter that the groundwork has been laid with the construction of the Côte-Vertu garage.

I really thought they’d use part of that massive budget to plant mature trees. It will be another heat island for decades. I didn’t expect that I was to assume the renderings represented what it’ll be like long after I’m dust. They gathered them all to make the big Corten wells and drains.

N’oublions pas la Prison № 47.

Like every other FIA-approved track on the planet. You do know football fields and soccer pitches get mowed, weeded, over-seeded, and resodded, right? Same thing.

I don’t hate that. I think the effect will be quite elegant overall once it’s built.

exo ridership on the Westmount Subdivision was ~3.5 million in 2019, while the total of exo St-Hilaire and VIA riders on the CN viaduct into Centrale was ~2.5 million.

Thanks for the pics, @mal. I’m cringing again looking at that wide, dilapidated railway right of way that purports to be this province’s busiest passenger rail corridor.🤦🏻‍♂️

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Is that a swimming zone?

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