Post some pictures of your city! II

[SignalHillHiker]

Gorgeous MTL pics!

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by leftimage

The funny thing about Toronto is the pedestrians are self-hating. I'll never forgot the first time I got a row of dirty looks for safely jaywalking in TO - and when I say safely I'm talking automatic by Montreal standards - standard procedure, no hesitation...
I feel like in TO people are simply more lawful & anal, qualities which combined prevent them from 'taking command' of their physical surroundings ha-ha.

I'm going to guess those "dirty looks" you got for jaywalking were your own projection. It's not exactly uncommon here, and is certainly not so taboo that people would actually be bothered enough to look at you. I can't imagine any major city where people would be so offended by the sight of a jaywalker as to actually glare at them.

The prevalence of jaywalking is not an indicator of walkability anyway. It's more a reflection of how the city's roads are built - things like the arrangement of streets, traffic patterns, number of crossings, length of light cycles, traffic speeds, visibility, etc. Some of these things that encourage jaywalking are also contributors to pedestrian friendliness; but some of the others force it because the environment is not designed to comfortably accommodate pedestrians. In Montreal's case, jaywalking is more common in because it has more one-way streets (whereas Toronto has only 4 major one-way streets) and less traffic. Not things that are necessarily any better for the pedestrian experience.

In any event, I'm not sure how Montreal is even any more pedestrian friendly to begin with.

[SignalHillHiker]

Here it just depends on road width and traffic speed.

Water Street is a free for all - jaywalk anywhere. Duckworth as well.

Anywhere else, it's mostly on crosswalks. Of course - like everything else in this loveable city - very few of our crosswalks actually make sense. Most of the worst offenders are because we eliminated roundabouts and started driving on the right when we joined Canada:

[SignalHillHiker]

September 6, 2014

A few more pics from today. Joanne, Aisling (You pronounce it Ash-Leeng; it's Irish. Locally, most people who have this name pronounce it Aims-Lee), Marc, Shannon, and I went all over town. Marc is Acadien, originally from Nova Scotia. So, of course, he's 6'3 while I (5'8) am the second-tallest in our whole group, . He was making fun of the names here. He thinks Siobhan (pronounced Shuh-vonne) is the weirdest Newfoundland name.

Anyhow, I'm going to start a photo collection of my friends walking.

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The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary's stables were open for visitors. SO AWESOME. I loved it!





(The Royal Canadian Legion, God BLESS them, does not recognize the official provincial flag of Newfoundland. They exclusively use the Union flag to represent Newfoundland. That is why the Union flag is the ONLY one that flies at our National War Memorial. It has nothing to do with us. Love it!)





















Marc didn't realize he was in frame.



Also, I had an accident:



And it was a superette (our version of a dep) owned by newcomers from Iraq. Ugh... I felt so bad.

And a couple more from a hike last weekend:



(I bought the shirt at a thrift shop for the hike. Never read it. )

[Black Star]

Ha....Rainbow shot is awesome.

[SignalHillHiker]

Gracias.

A couple more...

One more "friend walking":



And two of the weirdest things we saw downtown. And this IS NOT that pizzeria where they discovered underage Vietnamese hookers tied up in the back rooms.

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by caltrane74

Here are a few rain soaked shots



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I've always thought this to be one of the finest urban vistas in the city. University/ Ste. Catherine just screams of urbanity.


By the way martinmtl, great selection of photos you posted. Thanks for the time and effort.

[Martin Mtl]

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[advance62]

A few Kitchener shots:

Halls Lane by Matt M S, on Flickr

Electric City by Matt M S, on Flickr

Wet King Street by Matt M S, on Flickr

Stormy Night by Matt M S, on Flickr

[GreaterMontréal]

Montréal en Lumières - Complexe Desjardins by Vancayzeele Olivier, on Flickr

2014 04 06 mont royal metro by Jerome Olivier, on Flickr

Urban by QUΔΠ ΠGUΨΣΠ, on Flickr

cessna 172 flying over Montreal,Quebec,Canada-june 2014 by 2005 subaru impreza STi, on Flickr

Champlain Bridge by Olivier Hill, on Flickr

[kool maudit]

people don't jaywalk in copenhagen either. it could be 3 a.m., no cars for miles, but they'll wait for the light.

[Nouvellecosse]

Wow, Montreal's really got BALLS!

[caltrane74]

I really wish I had more time to spend in Montreal..

Next spring I'll go back, hope I get some better weather.

[softee]

The funny thing about Toronto is the pedestrians are self-hating. I'll never forgot the first time I got a row of dirty looks for safely jaywalking in TO - and when I say safely I'm talking automatic by Montreal standards - standard procedure, no hesitation...
I feel like in TO people are simply more lawful & anal, qualities which combined prevent them from 'taking command' of their physical surroundings ha-ha.

I think you're just seeing things that aren't even happening. No one gives a shit in Toronto if you jaywalk, everyone does it all the time.

[SpongeG]

some pics of ft st john in oil country NE BC

charlie lake a large lake that is said to be very deep
a monument to some soldiers who were rescued from the freezing waters of the lake during ww2

[SpongeG]

the town is currently booming, loads and loads of construction going on, houses, apartments, a new hotel, office/shop buildings, roads etc. the following are just some random pics from a drive around town

[SpongeG]

downtown - there was a blockparty going on






not sure what this is, it looks like it may be seniors housing, its on the old soccer field of the catholic school that closed down in the 90's, the school itself became a medical clinic, there is a graveyard next door



this is one of the tallest buildings in town, was built in the 80's during a boom period




left is from the 80's, right did not exist until the last few years - previously was just a big open field



new within the last few years

[SpongeG]

new microtel - first one in bc


new office/shop place, lots of these kind of buildings all along the highway


more new housing...




a few more to come

[SpongeG]

last batch...

the old hospital (where i was born) has been demolished









this is all recently new, its in the part of town that was always less than desireable and the trashy side of town an it seems even with all the new construction its still dumpy

















new fire station










in the 80's this was a hotel, it is now a salvation army homeless shelter, homelessness is a big issue there

[Chadillaccc]

Wow, looks like they're doing a lot of construction in Rainbow Lake!