Bike Tour Of Turcot Interchange Today

Ok, it’s summer, so I am going to allow myself to not be quite  on top of things, so in the better late than never dept.

Bonjour,

Afin de présenter les enjeux du Sud-Ouest à des membres de la Coalition pour Humaniser Notre Dame,
Afin que les citoyenNEs et travailleurs de Côte St-Paul connaissent mieux la réalité du projet du MTQ dans St Henri,
Que les citoyenNEs et travailleurs de St Henri s’approprient les enjeux de Côte St Paul,

Une visite guidée « Y’a du monde sous l’échangeur Turcot » s’organise actuellement pour le

dimanche 24 août de 14h à 17h

Rendez-vous
à 14h dans la cour de récréation de l’école Marie de l’Incarnation,
5446 rue Angers coin De l’Église dans Côte St Paul (à 2 pas du centre
de loisirs Mgr Pigeon)

La
visite se ferait en bicyclette. Si des piétons et automobilistes
étaient intéressés, rejoignez-moi afin que l’on s’organise en
conséquence.

Merci.

Bonne fin de semaine.


Sophie Thiébaut
agente de développement
Opération Galt

Gaétan Legault
citoyen contre l’autoroute Notre-Dame

Pour Mobilisation Turcot
www.mobilisation-turcot.info
(514)761-1665

‘Beaucoup de petites gens,
dans beaucoup de petits lieux,
faisant beaucoup de petites choses,
peuvent changer la face du monde’.

Proverbe écossais.

The Tour will meet up in the Biker’s Garden in Les Tanneries around 4 pm.

Map here.

See you there!

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El Caminito del Rey

Ok, it’s not urban, but, whooo! this is awesome!

As posted by Orbitbrown on YouTube.

El Caminito del Rey (English: The King’s pathway) is a walkway, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Álora in Málaga, Spain. The name is often shortened to El Camino del Rey.

HISTORY:
In 1901 it was obvious that the workers of the Chorro Falls and Gaitanejo Falls needed a walkway to cross between the falls, to provide transport of materials, vigilance and maintenance of the channel. Construction of the walkway lasted four years. It was finished in 1905.

In 1921 the king Alfonso XIII had to cross the walkway for the inauguration of the dam Conde del Guadalhorce, and it became known by its present name.
The walkway has now gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state. It is one meter (3 ft) in width, and is over 700 feet (200 m) tall. Nearly all of the path has no handrail. Some parts of the walkway have completely collapsed and have been replaced by a beam and a metallic wire on the wall. Many people have lost their lives on the walkway in recent years. After four people died in two accidents in 1999 and 2000, the local government closed the entrances. However, adventurous tourists still find their way into the walkway.

The regional government of Andalusia budgeted for 2006 a restoration plan estimated at € 7 million.

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