MONTREAL – On a quiet residential corner of Montreal’s St-Henri neighbourhood, plots of dirt carved out of the sidewalk, each hosting a solitary tree, have become verdant oases along the c...
It seems we’re so much more car-focussed than Montreal. We seem reluctant to give priority to pedestrians and public transit so as not to upset car owners.
We prioritize people who own things: cars, homes, businesses.
We can only hope. In my opinion, Montréal is the most European like big city in North America. And Quebec’s unique culture isolates it from the rest of anglo-saxon North America.
The thing is, DDO’s culture isolates it from the Mile End just as much as Vancouver’s culture isolates it from Red Deer’s. I get the sentiment, but it’s a big province, and a big country with all kinds of different ways of going about things. As a Quebecker, I don’t see a situation that’s different from anywhere else in Canada. Save for the language, but that’s just a language. It definitely is nice to have nice things here, though. :)
I really wish Toronto would follow Montreal’s lead.
It seems we’re so much more car-focussed than Montreal. We seem reluctant to give priority to pedestrians and public transit so as not to upset car owners.
We prioritize people who own things: cars, homes, businesses.
Well hoping Olivia can change that to an extent.
Seems? Toronto was deliberately made car dependent.
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We can only hope. In my opinion, Montréal is the most European like big city in North America. And Quebec’s unique culture isolates it from the rest of anglo-saxon North America.
The thing is, DDO’s culture isolates it from the Mile End just as much as Vancouver’s culture isolates it from Red Deer’s. I get the sentiment, but it’s a big province, and a big country with all kinds of different ways of going about things. As a Quebecker, I don’t see a situation that’s different from anywhere else in Canada. Save for the language, but that’s just a language. It definitely is nice to have nice things here, though. :)