{"id":1315,"date":"2006-11-07T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2006-11-07T16:38:02","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T20:38:02","slug":"blogrolling-to-the-turcot-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/11\/07\/blogrolling-to-the-turcot-yards\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogrolling to the Turcot Yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/yards.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The theme of the next hard-copy edition of Spacing will be intersections, those places where parts of the city meet, and cross, and where we sometimes come across each other. However, some of the strangest and most compelling intersections are the ones we can&#8217;t explore on foot so easily. As I mention in an essay in the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chbooks.com\/catalogue\/index.php?ISBN=155245178X\">The State of the Arts<\/a> book (a follow-up to uTOpia), the intersection of the 427 and the 401 out by Pearson was always magical for some of us passing through the city from Windsor, with roads flying 4-5 layers high. Our roads were only two layers, and the nearby Detroit overpasses weren&#8217;t &#8220;ours&#8221; in a nationalistic sort of way, but Toronto&#8217;s were.<\/p>\n<p>For a lot of Montrealers, and Canadians in general, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingo.readingcities.com\/index.php\/montreal\/comments\/the_turcot_yards_to_the_turcot_interchange\/\">Turcot Interchange<\/a> &#8212; where Quebec Autoroute&#8217;s 15 and 20 mash up together in an impossibly modern tangle of roads &#8212; was something to be proud of (itself flying above the Canadian National Railway yards below, yet another layer of intersection). Turcot, like Expo &#8217;67, was and maybe still is, wrapped up in our Canadian identity, a concrete marker of when we &#8220;came of age&#8221; or entered the modern age.<\/p>\n<p>That Turcot is crumbling now, and the CNR sold off the rail yards to the province in 2003 and that the interchange is synonmous with terrible traffic delays (making a running-late cab trip from the Plateau to Pierre Elliot Trudeau airport very expensive one day last year) makes this a strange land to explore. A wonderful blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/neath.wordpress.com\/\">Walking Turcot Yards<\/a> has been exploring the area underneath the roads for some time now. Sometimes contributors look at old tunnels (one is even called Dead Dog Tunnel), document huge billboards being dismantled or muse about urban design and art projects that would work here &#8212; other times they find historical documents about the area or post pictures they take of traces of the derelict life down below. It&#8217;s a good, psychogeographic approach to a part of Montreal most of us see on the way in and out of the city, but rarely if ever stop and pay attention to. They also link to many other folks who explore Turcot in their own ways.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/neath.wordpress.com\/2006\/10\/24\/advertising-towers\/\">this<\/a> &#8220;Advertising Towers&#8221; Walking Turcot Yards entry)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of the next hard-copy edition of Spacing will be intersections, those places where parts of the city meet, and cross, and where we sometimes come across each other. However, some of the strangest and most compelling intersections are the ones we can&#8217;t explore on foot so easily. 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