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Emperor Wang
    
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|  | | | It's moved into my neighbourhood this summer. I can't believe how busy the place is. And everybody seemed to be hard at work. In Quebec! Bizarre.
Here's a few pics I took yesterday while cycling along the westbound service road between des Sources and St-Jean. A shitty place to ride your bike, yes, but a very interesting place to see.
One of those moveable barrier, um, movers. Parked near des Sources. Dig the F1 look of the barriers :-)
This guy was chewing up the concrete roadbed with great efficiency.
Hard at work, removing the des Sources westbound on ramp.
Preformed re-bar, presumably for a signage foundation. The water truck was quite effective at keeping the dust down. In most places, anyway.
Dudes hauling away the old light standards. These things are so tall that they had to chop the ends off before the truck rolled away.
Other dudes hauling away the busted up median.
Laying a new trench, presumably for electrics and/or communications.
Staging area for the new plumbing.
Trying to get artsy fartsy. To no avail.
This guy impressed me the most. Every three minutes or so, he'd snip off an 8 foot length of the barrier, pluck it out of the trench, set it down, crunch it down to 1 cubic foot hunks, and move on to the next section. Fantastically efficient. Give me the keys to this puppy and a few tanker trucks of diesel fuel, and Fairview would be gone in a month!
Freshly graded shoulder area?
The old crash barriers have been removed. No sign of the post puller, sadly.
The old St-Jean off ramp is now used as the work site exit. All the concrete refuse is being piled up at left. They're not taking it away. Maybe it will be recycled on site?
This dude spotted me poking around and came over to tell me about the hard hat and safety vest rules. As soon as I saw the 1.2 teeth in his mouth, I made an extra-hasty exit.
Dump truck, dumping.
Slicing up the asphalt of the old St-Jean off ramp.
The temporary St-Jean westbound off ramp. Not a very safe place to be fooling around in.
The view looking east from the St-Jean overpass.
This concludes our tour for today, ladies and gentlemen. Stay tuned for further updates as the summer heats up (as if it's not hot enough already).
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Finder
 
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Montreal, QC
Gender: Male
Le légendaire 1280 de Montréal (1953-1994)
| | Re: T-Can Reconstruction
<Reply # 1 on 6/10/2005 2:45 PM >
| | | | It will be a CONCRETE highway, not shitty asphalt that lasts 2 years. That's how roads should be built.
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire
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Bonsoir et cest partie
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<Reply # 2 on 6/10/2005 8:01 PM >
| | | | i totally agree, lets just hope they dont patch with asphalt, like the 13, makes me laugh though, they spent a pantload in 1988 to re do the lighting with those nice fixtures and median but they is already removing them
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Emperor Wang
location:
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Fetish? What fetish?
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<Reply # 3 on 6/13/2005 11:26 PM >
| | | | Heh heh heh. I rode my bike down the middle of the Trans-Canada Highway after work Sunday. The wrong way. Thankfully, traffic was light that day :-)
My good bud, the Monster Mega Median Masher 5000, chilling out by the St-Charles overpass.
The open road beckons.
Dismantled stuff lies all throughput the site. I saw them hauling more of this away today.
Obstacle #1: The temporary St-Charles off ramp.
After dodging a number of pill-popping, Volvo driving, Kirkland soccer moms, the journey continues. More stuff to check out on the way to St-Jean.
Obstacle #2: the St-Jean on-ramp.
I couldn't resist.
Temporary lighting connected, old lighting disconnected forever.
The drain covers in the left lane are weighted down. Who knew?
Obstacle #3: the St-Jean off-ramp. Hopping these barriers with a bike on your shoulder, while avoiding maniacal west island drivers gets old real quick, believe me.
Oh, no! I'm going the wrong way!
The asphalt has been scraped away between St-Jean and des Sources. The Mega Masher has done his job well in this area too.
More heavy equipment and stuff to check out in this area. The articulated Volvo dump trucks are especially well suited to the narrow site.
Approaching des Sources. The curb of the old on ramp has been busted up real good. Strangely, not all of the asphalt has been removed yet.
Work is progressing most rapidly in the area just west of des Sources. A small section of the curb has been removed to facilitate the installation of a foundation for some new signage.
There's nothing left of the old des Sources on ramp anymore.
A short section of the old concrete roadbed has already been hacked up and hauled away. The depth of the excavation looked to be about 3 feet.
The endpoint of last year's work is exposed, and rolls of geo-textile lie at the ready. I wouldn't be surprised to see them laying new concrete in this area before the week is out.
More to come...
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Le légendaire 1280 de Montréal (1953-1994)
| | Re: T-Can Reconstruction
<Reply # 4 on 6/14/2005 2:23 AM >
| | | | Gonna be real nice once it's done. Nice to see taxpayer money being used for something useful for a change.
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire
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Shahre:'on Kaybec
Bonsoir et cest partie
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<Reply # 5 on 6/14/2005 3:13 AM >
| | | | i was walking on a strech of the highway saturday, funny to see a coffee can light close up, some were fixed using old road signs as tops!, when they were building highway 30 here on the south shore i used it as my personal bike path, highways are so much fun to bike on
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Umpire
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Shahre:'on Kaybec
Bonsoir et cest partie
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<Reply # 6 on 6/14/2005 11:40 AM >
| | | | did anyone happen to hear about the lacadie circle! GLUG GLUG GLUG or as ckoi said "une piscine sans la pompe"
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Le légendaire 1280 de Montréal (1953-1994)
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<Reply # 7 on 6/14/2005 11:57 AM >
| | | | Yeah thank goodness my commute involves going from Lachine-NDG. lol
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire
location:
Shahre:'on Kaybec
Bonsoir et cest partie
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<Reply # 8 on 6/14/2005 3:23 PM >
| | | | and im glad mine is mercier caugnawaga!
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It's so vewy droi here
| |  |  |  | Re: T-Can Reconstruction
<Reply # 9 on 6/15/2005 4:10 AM >
| | | | Posted by Sonofabitch!
This guy impressed me the most. Every three minutes or so, he'd snip off an 8 foot length of the barrier, pluck it out of the trench, set it down, crunch it down to 1 cubic foot hunks, and move on to the next section. Fantastically efficient. Give me the keys to this puppy and a few tanker trucks of diesel fuel, and Fairview would be gone in a month!
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Youd be my hero if you did this. By the way those are some pretty interesting pictures!
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Nanook
location:
Pointe Claire, Osaka Japan, Sweden/Denmark
Gender: Male
| | Re: T-Can Reconstruction
<Reply # 10 on 6/17/2005 2:52 AM >
| | | | I like what they are doing, but my parents think it is fucking htem up too much, we are right by the overpass area for st jean, and they are doing some stuff by our road to civilization on alston... What is wrong with Fairview, and the median is the layer under? They should fix lacadie.
[11:05:39] <Avatar-X> it's nanook!
[11:05:49] <Nanook> WHERE? |
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Le légendaire 1280 de Montréal (1953-1994)
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<Reply # 11 on 6/17/2005 11:58 AM >
| | | | L'Acadie is all brand new. They just don't know where the plug is to let the water out. 
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire
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Shahre:'on Kaybec
Bonsoir et cest partie
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<Reply # 12 on 6/17/2005 12:28 PM >
| | | | no they just havnt installed the filter for the pool
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Gender: Female
Where would you like your shot?
| | Re: T-Can Reconstruction
<Reply # 13 on 6/17/2005 10:10 PM >
| | | | ahahahah!!!!
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Emperor Wang
location:
On an island, in a river
Fetish? What fetish?
| | Re: T-Can Reconstruction
<Reply # 14 on 6/22/2005 1:25 AM >
| | | | Posted by Nanook
... What is wrong with Fairview, and the median is the layer under?
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You mean apart from the fact that half the humans in the world are currently dying of malnutrition, AIDS-infected, worked to death, or otherwise oppressed, while we're busy over here buying fashionable purses and $5 coffees?... Not much, really. It's kindof a nice building.
A median is the structure that separates oncoming lanes of traffic, BTW.
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Nanook
location:
Pointe Claire, Osaka Japan, Sweden/Denmark
Gender: Male
| | Re: T-Can Reconstruction
<Reply # 15 on 6/26/2005 8:37 PM >
| | | | Yeah, I figured out the median, and I hate the shops, but I like some parts of its architecture.
[11:05:39] <Avatar-X> it's nanook!
[11:05:49] <Nanook> WHERE? |
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire
location:
Shahre:'on Kaybec
Bonsoir et cest partie
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<Reply # 16 on 6/26/2005 8:43 PM >
| | | | yeah back in 85 when they tacked on the second floor, for 10$ what were the 3 original large surface anchor stores at fairview, what hardware store used to be in fairview and what other 2 medium anchors were once there,
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Nanook
location:
Pointe Claire, Osaka Japan, Sweden/Denmark
Gender: Male
| | Re: T-Can Reconstruction
<Reply # 17 on 6/26/2005 8:53 PM >
| | | | Posted by nostra-YOUPPI!
yeah back in 85 when they tacked on the second floor, for 10$ what were the 3 original large surface anchor stores at fairview, what hardware store used to be in fairview and what other 2 medium anchors were once there,
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Uh.... Eatons, the bay, sears, I dont know, I dont know, I dont know. Is that it? You cannot say I researched this ;). I want my money, for effort... I was born in 91.
[11:05:39] <Avatar-X> it's nanook!
[11:05:49] <Nanook> WHERE? |
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire
location:
Shahre:'on Kaybec
Bonsoir et cest partie
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<Reply # 18 on 6/26/2005 9:32 PM >
| | | | eatons in the present sears is the only one you got right, sears was added in 1992 in the block on the south end that is now the mall. the bay only came in 1989/90 so keep trying
sears late comming to the mall has somthing to do with the former bay tennant
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Nanook
location:
Pointe Claire, Osaka Japan, Sweden/Denmark
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 19 on 6/26/2005 9:46 PM >
| | | | Cant Find anything with research.... I want money....
[11:05:39] <Avatar-X> it's nanook!
[11:05:49] <Nanook> WHERE? |
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