| Posted by Emperor Wang |
3/11/2008 3:19 AM | remove |
I like to laugh at TO and the way their Gardiner Expressway isolates them from the lake, but we fucked things up here pretty much the same way. Whether vertical or horizontal, it's still the scar that never heals.
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| Posted by micro |
3/11/2008 3:38 AM | remove |
What used to be in that area before they dug it out though? I've heard a lot about the demolition that went on prior to the ville-marie expressway going in, but not so much for Decarie.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
3/11/2008 3:50 AM | remove |
the upper part of decarie (around queen mary) had like 3 lanes each way and trolley tracks in the middle
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| Posted by mewthree |
3/11/2008 8:58 AM | remove |
it looks great in that picture... they had no idea it would eventually be the thing that makes a lunatic wish to steal a snow plow and push the orange julep ball into it.
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| Posted by micro |
3/11/2008 1:59 PM | remove |
That would be kind of fun.
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
3/11/2008 11:27 PM | remove |
I gotta admit the covered part near NDG Avenue is kind of cool. Looking south at the garden patch provides a really bizarre view.
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| Posted by maZe |
3/12/2008 12:28 AM | remove |
What REALLY pisses me of if that no one seems to have learned from this mistake and now, they want to transform Notre-Dame in the same crappy poop....
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| Posted by mewthree |
3/12/2008 1:58 AM | remove |
lol.. well said maze
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| Posted by tijeff |
3/12/2008 3:20 PM | remove |
I do not totally agree Maze. Ville-marie High way is actually pretty good, and this project would be the prolongation of it, Would it ? I don't know exactly what are the latest plan with this, but if they do it the way I've seen it long ago ( completely cover, with a park on top ) this would be really nice, and way better that what it is right now
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| Posted by micro |
3/12/2008 5:36 PM | remove |
I don't really have a problem with the plans I've seen either. This doesn't seem like a project that would be disruptive on the scale that Decarie or the Ville Marie were. While I feel for the people on the north side who will have to put up with the extra noise/pollution, that stretch of Notre Dame seems as though it's been a write-off ever since the Port cut off access to the waterfront. It's already "crappy poop" and the chances of ever beautifying it in a way that makes it appealing to the general public are slim at best. At least the new plans allow for some green spaces that are slightly more inviting than the near-useless ones that are there now.
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| Posted by maZe |
3/12/2008 11:11 PM | remove |
I live pretty close by and would obviously be affected by the traffic, at least in terms of air pollution. The latest plans are for an UNCOVER highway, lower than ground level so very similar to Décarie. They are saying it better than me here : http://rue-notre-dame.org/humanisons-la/
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| Posted by micro |
3/13/2008 12:45 AM | remove |
Yeah, I knew that the plan was to do it that way. I'm just saying, that you can't compare it to Decarie though, because it's not slicing through the city in such a disruptive way. It's like comparing apples and oranges as far as I'm concerned.
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