Comments on: Montreal Geography Trivia No. 39

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:29:11 +0000

The new development took up easily half the park accessible to Montrealers, not 21%, as a large part of the area is not hikeable as swamp or underwater. They took a dry part. The history of the land I am curious about, history is evident in the stone piles that make up several rock walls on the land. The land is not pristine as there is an "intercepture" sewer going through the park. You can see at least two of the sewer "interceptures" on the mud and stone trail named Boulevard Riverdale (see google maps).
If you have been to the well maintained Cap-Saint-Jacques Nature Park, you know the potential for the land for people to enjoy . There is zero maintenance done on the trails (for public access) and no garbage cans, no outhouses or toilets exist. No parking.

As few people know of the place , I think thats how the developer got the land. With the lack of publicity, lack of maintenance for public access, the city got a bunch of money and future taxs to collect at the expense of the health of the public.

By: Stewart Clamen

Stewart Clamen — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:02:39 +0000

City folk need only travel as far as Hampstead to experience an on-island roundabout. Where Langhorne (Hampstead's extension of Dupuis), Finchley and Merton Crescent meet up.

By: Homer

Homer — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:35:59 +0000

As of the 2006 Canadian Census, 1,620,693 people resided in the city of Montreal proper.[1] The population of the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (also known as Greater Montreal) was 3,635,571 at the same 2006 census. Majority of you never venture huh? Last I checked 1.6 is less than half of 3.6. The MAJORITY live outside of the "City of Montreal". When this city realizes that suburbs are *part* of the city as many of us commute there, and spend money there (paying for parking among other things) then maybe things will get better.

By: Homer

Homer — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:24:19 +0000

Development encroaching on their habitat... hmm... I guess the Plateau was a barren wasteland before it was turned into a 'non-conform' concrete jungle, right?

By: Jean Naimard

Jean Naimard — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:15:33 +0000

Being a Brit, I have just about managed to drive on the right (provided I use a stick in the UK and an auto everywhere else) but I cannot get my head round (ahem) anticlockwise roundabouts.

Haven’t you been to Swindon, in the “magic roundabout”??? It has a nice anticlockwise roundabout smack in the middle…

By: David Pinto

David Pinto — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:25:22 +0000

James
On this side of the pond, we spell it "curb".
And, as for you, Mr. Webmaster, I thought that the term in this country was "traffic circle".

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:21:47 +0000

Somewhere in Ville Saint Laurent (the new part off of Henri Bourassa Blvd?)

By: HabsFan29

HabsFan29 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:35:37 +0000

Some suburb where the majority of us never venture?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:23:27 +0000

Could it be where boul. des Sources meets Riverdale in Pierrefonds (near Parc Rapides des Cheval Blanc)?

By: James

James — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:39:20 +0000

These cause me much grief. Being a Brit, I have just about managed to drive on the right (provided I use a stick in the UK and an auto everywhere else) but I cannot get my head round (ahem) anticlockwise roundabouts.

So wherever it is, it probably has some of my broken headlight lens plastic on the kerb...

By: Kent

Kent — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:35:59 +0000

The 2nd intersection entering Nun's Island at Boulevard Rene-Levesque and Boulevard de l'ile-des-soeurs.

By: JoLalo

JoLalo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:30:13 +0000

Hmmm... on the Island where there's nothing but roundabout: Isle des Soeurs?