Walking / Marche
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Terrasse trouble in Ville Émard
Who would have thought that patios could be so controversial? For nearly a year, since the Sud-Ouest borough approved a pilot project that installed...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Opening up to the city: one building’s transformation
There’s nothing inherently special about a downtown building with Starbucks, Quiznos Subs and Zyng Noodlery on its ground floor. In fact...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montreal’s suburban villages: Sainte Anne de Bellevue
Compact, walkable and attractive, Ste. Anne de Bellevue is one of the nicest old towns in suburban Montreal. It’s also about as far west as you can...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Greening Montreal’s laneways
Montrealers across the city are taking a renewed interest in their laneways. Since many of them are too narrow to work as service corridors, their...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour : Chinatown, l’hiver
Photo prise sur De La Gauchetière, entre St-Urbain et St-Dominique, le 22 décembre 2007.
By Cédric Sam -
La voie est libre sur Hutchison
Sur la rue Hutchison, petite soeur de l’Avenue du Parc sur presque toute sa longueur, il n’est pas rare de voir des skieurs de fond déambuler...
By Cédric Sam -
Keep de Maisonneuve closed to traffic
Downtown motorists will have to wait until March to drive down the block of de Maisonneuve Blvd. between Aylmer and Union, the city has announced. By...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Beaminster, Bradford, Campden: three odd streets
Back in October, on one of those unseasonably warm and humid days we had towards the end of fall, I was on the 129 bus heading west to Victoria Avenue...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Why is the STM not shovelling the Square-Victoria Metro entrance?
Tonight, while walking home from work through the Quartier International, my co-worker pointed out that the entrance to the Square-Victoria Metro station...
By Chris Erb -
SPACING MONTREAL POLL: Do you jaywalk?
Montrealers are known for the tendency to cross the street wherever they want. Simply put, most of us have no aversion to jaywalking, and there’s no...
By Spacing -
Steps are good for sitting
McGill University’s “Arts steps” It would hardly be an original observation to point out that a simple set of steps can become a...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Pedestrian Streets: Should MacKay be pedestrian only?
This is the beginning of a series of articles concerning pedestrian and shared streets in Montreal. Each article will either focus on an existing...
By Chris Erb