Looks like Montreal's war on δkʮbridges!® appears to have been lost, as an audacious plan to plant one over St. Antoine between the Bell Centre and a new proposed building could very well get approval because of hockey worship.
This puts Montreal in an awkward position as we are The City Without Skybridges.
Montreal has blocked more proposed skybridges than Sly Stallone's chin has blocked uppercuts.
Montreal blocked a proposed skybridge over Notre Dame near Peel for the ETS student complex many moons back - even though there had already been such a structure long ago in the same spot.
We blocked another one around McGill College for the narrowly-averted concert hall disaster.
Our logic for opposing the overhead pedestrian routes is that we already have an underground city where you can shop till you drop and then get up and shop and then drop again. Oh and the skybridges block out the sky to those below, say the haterz.
But suddenly skybridges are popping up above us all over... one in the Griff, one at the superhospital, so now we're a city that looks like we like skybridges but we just don't have many of them.
How sad is that?
A new plan is needed.
Here is that plan: a massive make-work project connecting buildings all around town regardless of whether they need to be connected or not.
We'll allow pedestrians, then longboards, then scooters, then motorcycles, then electric cars, then regular cars then trucks and trains to travel these airborne paths and eventually turn this city into Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
First we connect the Sun Life building to Place Ville Marie because yes.
Then we build a skybridge! from the old Eaton's (now called Garlic of Fashion) building to the Super Sexe strip club for reasons of convenience.
This puts Montreal in an awkward position as we are The City Without Skybridges.
Montreal has blocked more proposed skybridges than Sly Stallone's chin has blocked uppercuts.
Montreal blocked a proposed skybridge over Notre Dame near Peel for the ETS student complex many moons back - even though there had already been such a structure long ago in the same spot.
We blocked another one around McGill College for the narrowly-averted concert hall disaster.
Our logic for opposing the overhead pedestrian routes is that we already have an underground city where you can shop till you drop and then get up and shop and then drop again. Oh and the skybridges block out the sky to those below, say the haterz.
But suddenly skybridges are popping up above us all over... one in the Griff, one at the superhospital, so now we're a city that looks like we like skybridges but we just don't have many of them.
How sad is that?
A new plan is needed.
Here is that plan: a massive make-work project connecting buildings all around town regardless of whether they need to be connected or not.
We'll allow pedestrians, then longboards, then scooters, then motorcycles, then electric cars, then regular cars then trucks and trains to travel these airborne paths and eventually turn this city into Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
First we connect the Sun Life building to Place Ville Marie because yes.
Then we build a skybridge! from the old Eaton's (now called Garlic of Fashion) building to the Super Sexe strip club for reasons of convenience.
And then it's on to Drummond and De Maisonneuve where we could install skybridge! where the Drummond Court once stood.