Being able to have 2 vehicles pass each other without having to stop. Pretty obvious really. Plays a huge roll in my choosing where I buy having roads wide enough.
Huh? two vehicles can easily pass one another on those "narrow" streets. What do you drive? A Canyonero?
Someone called Coalrollerdouche is so quintessentially ugly Canada, this thread must have become self-aware and started generating its own content. Neat!
Not sure what we're looking at here, beyond standard issue suburbia.
It's standard suburbia... in the middle of the island of Montreal, that's what irks me. They could have done something nice with it like the Bois-Franc neighborhood next by.
That highway has been completely redone since 2005 so I'm unsure if it's still there as I only really remember the new section.
Yes! Did Mon Copain or another strip joint used to occupy that subway in the motel? I think that was the motel. Actually now that I think of it Mon Copain was there when you drove back in that scuzzy building and the motel had a different strip club in it. I found it astounding that such a sparsely populated area had strippers. Then again it's like au revoire Quebec when you're leaving and bienvenue au Quebec when you return!
I've considered that. There is still space for two cars to pass one another with a park car. It brings up the type of people that complain surface parking lots are disappearing because they aren't confident enough to park in an underground garage or pass a streetcar at an intersection, etc. These types contribute greatly to the traffic jams that led me to give up on driving in Toronto.
Everyone should have to confidently drive down Dovercourt, south of Dundas at 30+ kms an hour to get a license instead of the sprawling streets in suburbia. It would do a lot to alleviate rush hour traffic.
I like how the square is almost empty and there are no people on the random patio furniture. Aren't renderings supposed to add fake vitality? I'll take Calgary's new library any day of the week.
Edit: I have half a mind to add the dead Engineers from the city's central square in Alien Covenant.
I'll show a very fugly communal building from Mississauga later...google maps doesn't have itself updated enough in my area and taking a pic of it is....unpleasant.
I'll show a very fugly communal building from Mississauga later...google maps doesn't have itself updated enough in my area and taking a pic of it is....unpleasant.
Was that designed by the same architect as Mississauga's city hall?
Edit: just turned around in the streetview and saw the clocktower of shitty hall. Looks like it's part of the greater complex. Well at least it didn't have the hideous colours of some 90's era buildings like Calgary's Eau Claire market.
Looking at it at first I didn't think it was that bad. The more I look at it though, the more it looks like it has a modern pizza hut roof. It just seems like a local architect's aping international starchitecture.
I like how the square is almost empty and there are no people on the random patio furniture. Aren't renderings supposed to add fake vitality? I'll take Calgary's new library any day of the week.
Edit: I have half a mind to add the dead Engineers from the city's central square in Alien Covenant.
Many would. But at four times the price. This is a $69million, three year project.
I often feel like the odd man out on this thread, but it isn't "ugly", imho.
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Similar to MolsonExperts's post (for the first few), I was walking in a stretch of Mississauga today to see what it was like....and I had a straaaange feeling walking through here.
Say hello to Edmonton's renovated Stanley Milner Library, facing Churchill Square downtown.
Oh sweet baby jeezus!
Tell me it ain't so.... This is like acid wash (liberally torn) jeans, mile high bangs, and huge loop earrings making a comeback....except on a building. Can't wait to hear how much my property taxes will increase to help pay for 'tasteful' projects like this. J'ai le goût de vomir.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell). Sweet Loretta fart thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan. (John Lennon)
I've considered that. There is still space for two cars to pass one another with a park car. It brings up the type of people that complain surface parking lots are disappearing because they aren't confident enough to park in an underground garage or pass a streetcar at an intersection, etc. These types contribute greatly to the traffic jams that led me to give up on driving in Toronto.
Everyone should have to confidently drive down Dovercourt, south of Dundas at 30+ kms an hour to get a license instead of the sprawling streets in suburbia. It would do a lot to alleviate rush hour traffic.
This is a suburban street not too far from where I live. I find it's a decent width for a fairly new (20 years?) suburban area. Most of the other streets in the area are quite a bit wider though.
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This is like acid wash (liberally torn) jeans, mile high bangs, and huge loop earrings making a comeback....except on a building. Can't wait to hear how much my property taxes will increase to help pay for 'tasteful' projects like this. J'ai le goût de vomir.
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