| Posted by Emperor Wang |
2/27/2009 3:55 AM | remove |
Looks like the old terminal building in back.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
2/27/2009 4:56 AM | remove |
thats what i said before, near the present freight terminal. what makes me laugh, the new hotel is almost as tall as the new control tower!
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
2/28/2009 4:13 AM | remove |
they've spent so much money renovating this place and what did they get? They expropriated the parts of the golf course because they need storage space... This has always been a limited space but they will try to jam as much a they can in there. Personally, I tend to think of our airport history of the last 30-40 years as being equal to the Olympic Stadium project. Spend billions and end up mediocre.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
2/28/2009 2:52 PM | remove |
well the golf course wasnt actually expropriated, it was always owned by the airport but was leased out. they basically ended the lease but in the public perception game, the building of the golf course was a bad idea in the first place because plowing it under looks bad, sorta like bombardier with the "temporary" challenger golf course, now they want to develop it as planned and the bois franc residents are flipping out
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| Posted by maZe |
2/28/2009 6:56 PM | remove |
I agree with both of you Nostra and Charlie. When you fly out to other places, you realize how far behind Montreal is in terms of airport facilities... I have pity for European travellers flying here for the first time :-/
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
3/7/2009 2:36 AM | remove |
Yea, the airport always did technically own the golf course but 25 or more years ago Mirabel was a huge part of the equation, so a lot of the 25,000 people who signed a petition against the golf course being excavated were people who had bought homes - blame the development process, not the buyers - close to the airport who were pretty much told that Dorval would never expand.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
3/7/2009 1:31 PM | remove |
but remember the golf course is being plowed under, not for another runway, but for hangers and other industrial things, development that would have happened otherwise, airport or not
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
3/14/2009 4:37 AM | remove |
not sure I get that, no airport, golf course stays as far as I can see it.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
3/14/2009 2:39 PM | remove |
the golf course is land zoned industrial, always has been, where the golf course is in that industrial park it was inevitable it would be plowed under, like many golf courses in the montreal area.
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
3/15/2009 3:02 AM | remove |
Well, there were 25,000 signatures protesting developing the golf course. The head guy at the airport, Cherry, a regular asshole, went straight to the feds , "conservatives", and they pulled out the rules, etc etc. Harper's gang is ultra pro development, they cum in their pants at the thought of the Arctic melting, for example. I think that one of the points of the protest was that billions of dollars had been spent to ensure a certain way of life on the West Island and parts of Saint Laurent (not necessarily a sustainable one). It's not those people's fault that Mirable was a disaster. And on top of all that, we will probably be seeing major reductions of air travel in the coming decades, if not in just a few years. It's all just more massive spending going totally backwards with no knowledge of where it s going at all. I predict the new warehousing at Trudeau will be unnecessary in 15 years, max.
LOL
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
3/15/2009 10:34 PM | remove |
i predict the new warehousing at trudeau in 15 years will be mostly used by "grounded" industries. i just think of the golf courses plowed under in recent years. the one in dorval on bouchard, lachine, the one on the kirkland/beaconsfield line etc
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
3/16/2009 3:28 AM | remove |
Challenger in Saint Laurent is slowly going bye bye. Bois Franc is a classic development all dressed up with tree lined streets. They will shove a shrub in anywhere just to give it a "sustainable" look, but it's car culture plain and simple, a project straight out of 1950's suburbia. Heck, even the only city bus that goes through there, the 70, stops running at 7 in the evening. Vroooooom! Vroooooom!
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
3/16/2009 3:00 PM | remove |
oh bois franc is a place where people wont know thier neighbors either, when i visited for the hell of it i realized no one will ever use thier front doors, the parking is all in 2 car agarages in the townhouses basements accessible from a common "tunnel" under the back yards.
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| Posted by Agent Skelly |
5/28/2009 2:57 AM | remove |
YUL reminds of me SAN in the sense that even though its limited in growth, people prefer it because its basically right downtown.
Maze & Nostra: Why didn't any Quebec politician come up with any legislation similar to the Wright Amendment down here?
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
5/28/2009 3:35 AM | remove |
And where was the Wright Amendment amended? Very unlikely anyone up here was, or wanted to be, paying attention.
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| Posted by Agent Skelly |
6/4/2009 4:25 AM | remove |
It was an act of US Congress...
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