Comments for Walking Turcot Yards

Comment on About by dreamlistener

dreamlistener — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:50:38 +0000

thanks, i have found out the glen road was once a river that flowed into the st-laurence…and that the bridge was built in 1892 to replace an older wooden bridge.

Comment on Huge Momentum Shift For Turcot At BAPE by Fagstein » Turcot: Keep the eyesore?

Fagstein » Turcot: Keep the eyesore? — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:37:31 +0000

[...] the past month, it seems there’s been a rather large shift in public perception of the Turcot Interchange reconstruction project. All three major [...]

Comment on About by neath

neath — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:52:23 +0000

Hi Karen,

Don’t have a lot on the history of that bridge but here is a Flickr page that may be of some help
http://www.flickr.com/photos/douaireg/2353705659/

Comment on About by dream listener

dream listener — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:38:21 +0000

hi neath,
karen here (aka dream listener) and i am looking for information on the train bridge that goes over glen street (between courcelle and landsdowne) i really like the construction of it and how it seems to be its own little space when you walk under it… a kind of passage from westmount into st-henri (or vice-versa)
if u have any leads?
i thought you’ld be the guy to ask.
thanks,
k

Comment on March Today! by Steven

Steven — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:00:06 +0000

Thank you !!!! will do!!!

Comment on March Today! by neath

neath — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:58:28 +0000

I am not sure of the demolition schedule under the current Turcot plan, but I am quite sure your neighbors are much better informed to let you know what is happening. Recent events have given some hope that there will not be any demolitions.

Yea, it might seem scary, but you now live in one of the most interesting places in all of Montreal, make the most of it!

Comment on March Today! by Steven

Steven — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:39:07 +0000

Hello I just moved in to 780 St Remi and everybody is scaring me telling me that I did a bad move simply because a destruction will be taking place this year!! Is this true ?Thank you

steven

Comment on Vertical Farming by neath

neath — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:15:00 +0000

ONe of the most impressive parts of the BAPE was the incredible diversity of the ideas and, for the most part, they are not only doable, but can be done simultaneously. Let the BAPE presenters design the future of Montreal and the world would rush here to see it!

Comment on Vertical Farming by Avrom Shtern

Avrom Shtern — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:10:57 +0000

Nice spread!
The Green Coalition included this concept in its brief to the BAPE Turcot hearings. Roads and highways affect development policy. Non-urban planning policy has led to the destruction of vital local farmland…

A Shtern
http://www.greencoalitionverte.ca

Comment on Google Moon by neath

neath — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:03:13 +0000

Ahhhh, thank you.

Comment on Google Moon by Avrom Shtern

Avrom Shtern — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:40:08 +0000

Its more like 30 years ago.
Space 1999 was produced in the mid 1970s.

Avrom Shtern

Comment on Turcot Fenced Off by neath

neath — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:04:31 +0000

Strange, never thought we would see new track being laid there, be interesting to see exactly where they are going to put it.

Comment on Turcot Fenced Off by Factotum

Factotum — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:24:19 +0000

There was an article in La Presse the other day which said that CN is putting in a new track across the Turcot Yards:
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/regional/montreal/200906/19/01-877440-echangeur-turcot-le-cn-surprend-le-mtq.php

That may explain why they’ve tightened up the security recently.

Comment on Turcot Fenced Off by neath

neath — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:04:21 +0000

I stumbled upon that path once and at first I thought it was just a shortcut for the yards from Saint Jacques. But Andy Riga did some research and, sure enough, they had actually started a bike path right IN the Falaise Saint Jacques!

Comment on Turcot Fenced Off by Singlestar

Singlestar — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:46:49 +0000

Much or the Turcot Yards were closed to the public years ago. You haven’t been able to drive or walk along most of Pullman (at the foot of the cliff) for several years. First is was CN Police – representing the then owners, and more recently any number of cops or rent-a-cops. The path along the side of the cliff, never completed but for which the City invested much effort during the 80s and 90s (intended to be a bike and cross-country ski path) is inaccessible except to the brave.