Montreal does not have a single downtown building offering a transitory vertical view onto this beautiful city.
So nowhere in Montreal can you ride up to a room or office in a glass-walled elevator and admire this stunning mountain and skyline.
(Come to think of it, Montreal does not have many - or any - rooftop terraces to go to, adding to the tragedy)
People in transit should not be oppressed by ugliness along the route but our architects and city planners have done just that.
Many people are forced to take elevator rides countless times per day and on every painful ride they only have walls, numbers and people's shoes to gaze at.
Imagine how crazy awesome it would be to ride to the top of Place Ville Marie in a glass elevator stuck to the outside of the building?
Heck people down on the ground would love it too, as it would give us our best view of people in windows since the go-go girl dancing silhouette girl shook her stuff at Drummond and St. Catherine.Tourists would love getting a glimpse of our beautiful mountain and skyline, so let's stop forcing them to travel through awful concrete vertical tubes, it's barbaric..
(And don't talk to me about that stupid elevator on the Olympic Stadium, Montreal from Ville d'Anjou? Or the one in the scrubland known as the Delta Hotel? No thanks.) Our Catholic clergy, police and architecture set would love this too as it would cut down on elevator pregnancies and assaults and it would fit in with out Westmount-Square-style Van der Rohe concept of letting the exoskeleton show.
See also: Summer bummer: no place to enjoy the view