Infrastructure
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Water and citizenship
If you’re among the 50% of Montrealers who rent their homes, and the 38% of Montrealers who vote in municipal elections, you may have one extra...
By Alanah Heffez -
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...
By Jacob Larsen -
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...
By Jacob Larsen -
FAVOURITE FRIDAY: What is your favourite pedestrian bridge?
Across the Spacing urban blog network each week we’re asking our readers in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Otttawa, and the Atlantic cities to let us...
By Spacing -
Corruption, Cartels and Crumbling Infrastructure
Images all Flickr Creative Commons, courtesy of MPD01605, lestudio1, mechanikat & theseoduke With allegations of corruption and collusion in the...
By Jacob Larsen -
New bike infrastructure arrives in Montreal
This summer has seen the arrival of two new types of biking infrastructure in Montreal: bike boxes on Milton and a hybrid bike path/lane on St-Urbain...
By Devin Alfaro -
Paysages et pièges d’un travailleur cycliste
Paysages et pièges de mon parcours de 16km quotidien vers le nord de Laval l’an dernier. Celui de cette année sera un peu moins nord, mais plus...
By Jean Desjardins -
Compteurs d’eau : un jeu dont vous êtes le héros
Un Winnipégois utilise en moyenne 187 litres d’eau par jour. Un Vancouvérois? 358. Un Montréalais? 504! Dans un rapport publié en 2008...
By Jonathan Lapalme -
The Regionalist: Why Haphazard Urban Development is a Moral Failure
Two weeks ago, I wrote an Op-Ed which was published in La Presse and which stirred some controversy – at least in the Facebook/Twitter world. The...
By Joel Thibert -
De l’intervention divine dans les structures
En juillet 2007, soit environ un an après l’effondrement du viaduc de la Concorde, la firme de sondage Léger marketing présentait les résultats d’un...
By Alexandre Campeau-Vallée -
How to Care for your Concrete City
Usually docile and well behaved, it feels like lately many of our city’s concrete beasts have turned vicious over the summer. Bridges are closed...
By Alanah Heffez -
A Highway Waiting to Happen
A thick white stripe across the Eastern side of Laval marks the embryo of autoroute 25. It’s come quite a way since Spring 2009. After 3 years of...
By Alanah Heffez