This silhouette might be familiar to many who have to deal with it quite often. It's a major weakness in the city and needs definitely be addressed. Ideas?
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| Federal Conservatives will build this if we ask |
Yep. Klever Koolopolites ! It is indeed that wasteful approach to the Jacques Cartier Bridge. Eastbound motorists jam up Papineau every day to add an extra two kilometers to their trip to the South when a short tunnel could make life so much easier. There's a
lready a ramp onto the bridge from the island so it'd be pretty simple. Heck you could even charge a couple of bucks to get on.
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A tunnel to the Jacuqes Cartier would
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I know that this degenerate couple would very much like this to happen as their best late afternoon motel ops are down on the South Shore.
ville marie to the jacques cartier?
ReplyDeleteFrom the village, up Papineau to the JC bridge. Should have a direct connection (underground) to the Ville-Marie tunnel.
ReplyDeleteCrossing from Angrignon to reach NDG...over the 20, left along the base of the belvedere, turn right along St-Jacques...
ReplyDeleteWhat about that direct, straight-line connection from the south end of Guy Street to Bridge Street and then onto Victoria Bridge?
ReplyDeleteWhen the relatively new Canada Post sorting station just south of Ottawa Street was recently demolished, I had a suspicion this was the ulterior motive all along--and, for all we know, perhaps it still is.
One must always keep in mind, however, that such prospective route-planning brings out the greedy speculators who then drive up nearby property values. Indeed, the "Delorimier Curve" approach to the JCB was the result of just such a property-value, remuneration dispute between the city and the owner of a nearby soap factory.
Indeed, to avoid similar speculative tactics, the planning of the railway tunnel under Mount Royal required that properties in what is now TMR (Town of Mount Royal) and points west were secretly purchased under various different company names on behalf of what was then the Canadian Northern Railway (which was later amalgamated into the Canadian National Railway).
Historically, western frontier railroad lines in the U.S. and Canada have had their fair share of land grabbers who even jumped the gun by building towns way ahead of any confirmed, publically-announced route plans in the hope that they would rake in enormous profits should their prospective town and its surrounding properties actually become a "through way" or hub. Needless to say, such speculation often proved to be an enormous error when the rail line went elsewhere.
One has only to look at how long it has been taking for Autoroute 30 to be completed all the way through from Candiac to Vaudreuil as various Quebec governments have for years been negotiating their way forward with First Nations and other, numerous land-owners.
As an aside (sorry, but I can't resist), you will notice in the photograph that the "lady and the ape" are not wearing their seat-belts. ;-)
Ugh. More lanes = more cars. More pollution. More degeneration of the city.
ReplyDeleteNon merci.