Tag Archives: Montréal Infrastructure

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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Bridges to Babylon: the Jacques-Cartier Bridge

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Taylor C. Noakes

It’s funny, I look at the above picture and wonder how it’s possible that the Sun seems to be setting on the East side of the Bridge, and then I remember that Montreal’s Sun rises in the South. It’s amazing … Continue reading →

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