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Some Sculptors

January 16, 2018by neath 1 Comment

Subodh Gupta “Subodh Gupta (born in 1964) is an Indian Contemporary artist based in New Delhi. Trained as a painter, he went on to experiment with a variety of media. […]

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Arts, Collage/Montage, Construction, Urban

Turcot Work Under Way

October 10, 2011by neath Leave a comment

Photo: Dave Sidaway, The Gazette And so the sad stupid story of Turcot goes into the next phase – a bad plan that will make some people a pretty good […]

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Construction, Turcot

A Different Turcot Idea

January 28, 2009by neath 6 Comments

One of the optionsĀ  Transports Quebec hadĀ  on the table with the Turcot Interchange was to simply renovate and strengthen the current interchange. It was estimated that this would cost […]

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architecture, Construction, Development, Driving, environment, transportation

More Trains, Less Planes, Please

March 13, 2008by neath Leave a comment

Henry Aubin writes in today’s Gazette about the expansion plans at Trudeau International. He questions whether spending billions to expand the airport is really in everyone’s best interest in this […]

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Airport, Climate Change, Construction, Development, environment, Photography, Snow

Infrastructure Collapsing in Canada?

November 20, 2007by neath 6 Comments

This is going across the wire today. Canada’s infrastructure deficit hits $123 billion, report says OTTAWA – Canada’s water treatment facilities, roads and public infrastructure is on the verge of […]

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Collapse, Construction, Development, Global Warming, Infrastructure, Overpasses, Politics, Sustainability

Public Consultation in NDG – November 19, 7pm

November 14, 2007by neath 2 Comments

Finally, the MTQ people have agreed to hold a public consultation meeting for residents of NDG (for some completely unknown reason they did not originally see NDG as an area […]

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City Hall, Construction, environment, freeway, Hospital, Interchange, News, Parks, Saint Henri, Structures, Urban

Gabor Szilasi

October 22, 2007by neath 3 Comments

One of the most prolific of Quebec’s well known and widely respected photographers, Gabor Szilasi photographed the building of the Turcot Interchange. Here are some oldies from around 1967 when […]

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architecture, Construction, freeway, History, Interchange, Photography, Structures, Urban

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