By Jacob Larsen
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This Saturday, ‘Hack ta Ville’ will make hackers of ordinary citizens
Image courtesy of California Forward Urban and computer geeks will descend on McGil this Saturday for ‘Hack ta Ville‘, an intro to the open...
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Mind the Marsh (Or how the CN-MTQ dispute may alter the future of the Turcot Interchange)
The buried Otter Lake occupied a good deal of the present-day Turcot Yards (courtesy of Walking Turcot Yards) The Ministry of Transport has hit a major...
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NDG cyclists make the case for a safe connection
Source: Bing Maps NDG residents fed up with confusing, scary intersections take note: Tomorrow, your local cycling group will be meeting at Décarie and de...
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What’s wrong with this picture?
It’s amazing what a few hours poking around the Ministry of Transport’s website can reveal. What does this province spend on new highway...
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Corruption, Cartels and Crumbling Infrastructure
Images all Flickr Creative Commons, courtesy of MPD01605, lestudio1, mechanikat & theseoduke With allegations of corruption and collusion in the...
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Losing sight of the highway for the green: Understanding the “new” Turcot plan
Welcome to Portland boul. Notre-Dame In the face of harsh critiques from just about every imaginable governmental and non-governmental body in the...
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Making the Link: Is the marriage of cycling with transit the future of transportation?
Riding Portland’s LRT is a breeze with your bike – Image from Thomas Le Ngo’s Flickr page As North American urban planners grapple with...
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The Turcot: Three plans, one future
The City of Montreal invokes a more tranquil future next to the Turcot While summer may be the peak of construction season here in Quebec, it appears that...
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Copenhagen by Computer an infrastructural tour #1
This is the beginning of a short photo series around Copenhagen (aka Hopenhagen) and some of their neat bike/ped/vehicle road design they employ . Since...
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A small victory for the Southwest: Turcot plans modified
Modified based on an MTQ image – additions not to scale This past weekend, the MTQ quietly broke the news to Radio-Canada and CBC News that the plan...
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Greenwashing for the masses: The Premier’s message on the eve of Copenhagen
A screenshot from the Government’s website on Quebec’s position at the Copenhagen climate talks Premier Jean Charest is spreading the gospel...
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A Montreal whodunnit: How to make sense of all these firebombings
Photo from mtlp‘s photostream on Flickr While a whodunnit may sound fun, it’s disquieting and mysterious to think who’s throwing all...