Tag Archives: Montréal Bridges

Personae non gratae – Champlain, Richard, Taillibert

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Taylor C. Noakes

I feel this story might have slipped under the radar. The guy who designed the Big O has a counter-proposal to the Fed’s Champlain Bridge Redux project. Noted 88 year-old French architect Roger Taillibert says his design looks better, is … Continue reading →

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Even More Champlain Bridge Blues

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Taylor C. Noakes

Superpoutre… guess we can all add that one to the lexicon. I have a feeling it may become quite common. For the uninitiated, the ‘Superpoutre‘ or superbeam (a 75-tonne steel reinforcement beam), was successfully installed on the Champlain Bridge over … Continue reading →

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Champlain Bridge Blues

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Taylor C. Noakes

So here’s our situation. The most used bridge in all of Canada may be in danger of breaking apart and partially collapsing. Last week a known crack was determined to have widened enough emergency repairs and lane closures were merited. … Continue reading →

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Back River Bridges

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Taylor C. Noakes

So if you’ll indulge me, a proposal to dramatically alter (and hopefully improve) West Island public transit in general and substantially increase the passenger volume of the AMT’s Deux-Montagnes Line in particular. I once heard the West Island described as … Continue reading →

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So apparently we’re getting a very expensive bridge…

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Taylor C. Noakes

…and as always, efficiency takes a back seat when it comes to stimulus spending and infrastructure development in the Montréal region. The CBC announced a plan by the Conservative government of Stephen Harper (in case you were unaware) to build … Continue reading →

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Montreal’s Infrastructure Storm – Public transit to the rescue?

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Taylor C. Noakes

A Montreal Gazette article from August 25th 2011 detailed what is being described as a perfect storm of simultaneous, overlapping infrastructure projects which may ‘paralyze’ transit on island and in parts of the metropolitan region by 2015, less than four … Continue reading →

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