Cul-de-Sacs, But Smarter: How Montreal is Rethinking Residential Streets

[@OhTheUrbanity]

Correction (Dec 9, 2024): We got an update from the borough on the origin of Augier Square. Although there were tram routes on major streets nearby, it turns out that this square wasn't used for trams. The unique geometry comes from how nearby lands were subdivided.

[@rioriggs3568]

I've never noticed that square before. Happy they did something nice... On the down side, it probably cost a fortune and took away approximately 12 parking spaces.

[@zionosphere]

The critics are partly right. It is a restriction of movement for cars. But only for cars. That's the point. I would say that this is better than culs-de-sac because they are not usually built with walkway connections to other places.

[@gctypo2838]

In Seattle there's these really narrow residential streets with parallel parking, one lane wide, with two-way traffic. These things are terrifying to navigate because pedestrians could pop out between the cars (often massive SUVs and trucks) at any moment and there could be oncoming traffic at the other end where you're trying to go. For whatever reason google maps always seems to want to route me through these streets every time I need to drive through Seattle. If these streets had modal filtering or some similar design to impede through traffic, then I and other unwitting drivers wouldn't be routed through there, and the residents would have safer streets.

[@rianfelis3156]

This is a huge thing. People want to get bikes off of major roads, but you can only do that if you have available routes like this which are available to bikes but not cars. Otherwise any filtering you try to do to reduce car traffic will also shove bikes onto major roads.

[@sharpless]

Cul-de-sacs in the USA and Canada, from what I have seen, is often bad in that the are end of road for all modes. Over here in Sweden many neighbourhoods are built as cul-de-sacs for cars only, but often let bicyclists and pedestrians continue.

[@tesseg]

They're residential streets. You're not supposed to use them as shortcuts.

[@EdwardM-t8p]

If developers didn't surround their cul-de-sacs with continuous houses they could have built pedestrian and bicycle connections between cul-de-sacs especially those that are back to back! 😊

[@TimFitzGeraldca]

I love how this makes a strong argument for incrementalism. We didn’t get continuous sidewalks on Pine Avenue, but it laid the groundwork for half attempt on Pierre de Coubertin (the street along the Olympic stadium), which gave the city the comfort to go all the way with this example. Hopefully this instance will lead to more openness still going forward.

[@spiguy]

Incrementalism and bottom-up politics

[@agatien]

You can't make it perfect every time. But you can make it good. If you wait for perfect you'll never build it. Just start where you last left off and make it a bit better. You'll get to perfect eventually!

[@weatheranddarkness]

Problem is it means those incomplete examples won't get proper ones for decades and decades more. Though I do hope this means we will get some actual ones elsewhere now.

[@TimFitzGeraldca]

@ I hear you. I tell myself “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” If we hold out for perfection every time we won’t get anywhere.

[@drewcama2488]

Don't even get me started on Pine ave.!

[@stephenspackman5573]

The important thing about this project is that it does not reduce _pedestrian_ connectivity. I live in California, and one of the great frustrations is that although this is a pretty environment with trails that run for miles along the sides of rivers and streams, every possible opportunity has been taken to impede pedestrians. If there are two adjacent parks, a fence is erected between them. If there is a parking area adjacent to a trail, there will be a fence there. If there are two residential areas or culs-de-sac, again, they're fenced from each other. It results in an urban environment that screams “humans go home”.

[@AnotherDuck]

If that happens where I live, there's a high risk those fences will receive a few accessibility options.

[@Soken50]

@@AnotherDuck It's the same where I live but it results in escalation. if it's a nailed wooden fence it gets torn up, if it's a wire fence it gets bolt-cut, if it's metal slats or panels it gets disc-cut but in the end the city gives up and pedestrians get their way.

[@weatheranddarkness]

There has been no shortage of unnecessary chainlink fencing in Montreal. It's the capitalist drive to enclose and "own" more than anything.

[@blazingstar9638]

Also restricting wildlife movement

[@blazingstar9638]

@@Soken50haha nice. Where do u live??

[@felipexrmz]

Shout-out the guy working on his ollies in the background, as well as the cat exploring the greenery. Great spot for everybody it seems :)

[@OhTheUrbanity]

That guy was there for nearly two hours!

[@danrobrish3664]

The fact that the cat was comfortable exploring shows that the traffic calming was successful.

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

I grew up in an outer suburban neighbourhood with plenty of culs-de-sac and other discontinuities for cars. But since there were almost always cut-throughs for pedestrians and cyclists, there was nearly unrestricted freedom of movement on foot or bike. It was often faster and more pleasant to run errands by bike than by car. Many other subdivisions nearby had a similar street pattern but since they often lacked those cut-throughs, it was impractical to walk or bike anywhere. The importance of pedestrian/cycling permeability in neighbourhood design cannot be understated.

[@AnotherDuck]

Absolutely. It's particularly important for children who can't drive. If they can go to at least some places without helicopter parents, they'll grow up with better self esteem and independence.

[@sergiom5907]

He did a really good job at explaining how and why this was built. Getting to hear the thought process of how each component was selected really makes you appreciate it alot more.

[@melissahalle8398]

Loving the interviews of our local leaders. Love your work keep up the Montreal representation for us nerds

[@milliedragon4418]

I will tell the cat was definitely also enjoying this 'new Cul-De-Sac' That cat is the inspector of street for sure, The cat's just doing their inspection. The cat approves. The cat needs to be honorarily the mayor of the street for doing a good work.

[@adamndirtyape]

Cul-De-Chat

[@Barnaclebeard]

People who let cats roam free are animal abusers and despoilers of nature.

[@MrMountainchris]

Having your house be in that neighborhood where they created the public park is like winning the lottery. Those properties are going to shoot up in value. Its beautiful... I wish more cities focused on beauty and pedestrian safety and happiness. Cars and car infrastructure have ruined our cities.

[@PseudoFiction]

we gotta get out of this mindset of viewing houses as financial investments, basic needs shouldn't come with a profit motive

[@MrMountainchris]

@@PseudoFiction I agree, but that is the world we currently live in. I consider my house my home and have put tons of work into it and wouldn't consider selling.

[@red_skies80]

@@PseudoFiction this

[@intSevero]

Please do more interviews with urban planners and landscape artists! Would love to hear more about the technical challenges they faced to understand why things are the way they are here in the city. Loved this video

[@sylvainmichaud2262]

I just hope that this radical but positive culture change in Montreal's urbanism will survive the departure of the current mayor (Valérie Plante).

[@OhTheUrbanity]

A lot of this stuff is under control of the boroughs so I think it will, at least in boroughs that vote for Projet Montréal

[@sylvainmichaud2262]

@@OhTheUrbanity True. But I never underestimate the ability of a population to vote against its own interest. Unfortunately, I don't think of any recent example to support my point. 😏

[@kidmohair8151]

@@sylvainmichaud2262 si tu n'objette pas, i would rephrase that to say, "never underestimate the ability of *vested interests* to get their way through whatever means they need to use".

[@sylvainmichaud2262]

@@kidmohair8151 Banlieusard ?

[@ikelom]

@@kidmohair8151 Good point!

[@meapz]

I work as a stormwater engineer and it is really cool to see how the necessity for my sorts of projects can be leveraged into urbanist improvements to a space

[@Swiss2025]

You should visit Montreal in the summer and discover the sponge parks to capture water . Montreal summers are tropical ( 35c : close to 100 f) and so is the rain . The city is building sponge parks to capture more than 500,000 ml of water underground . Check Montreal sponge parks on google . Montreal is also a cultural powerhouse , a mix of New Yprk and europe in both official languages of Canada , french and english plus all languages of the world .

[@hendman4083]

For a moment I was thinking: those streets still look a bit wide for streets in a residential area, and then those stupidly large fire trucks were mentioned. 🙄

[@nicolasleberre1756]

Yep, nos grands champions de la lutte à l'incendie qui concrètement ne font que lutter pour maintenir des routes accidentogenes et qui contribue aux îlots de chaleur.

[@chow-chihuang4903]

Most of the world uses more compact yet equally-capable fire trucks and engines built on stock box truck chassis for cost savings as well as greater maneuverability and nimbleness. Adopting those, or at least emulating them domestically, would help design safer streets as well as make better use of fire department budgets, or stretch the same budget over more companies. Yes, you have to be better about packing your equipment after use, but that also makes it easier to find and extract them rather than the tangled jumble I sometimes see in the equipment lockers on the trucks and engines used in the US and Canada.

[@drewcama2488]

@@chow-chihuang4903 I don't know much about fire engine design but special equipment needs special base structure. They tried this approach with the ambulances and had a hell of a time for many years with the new ambulances. I don't have any connections with the ambulances any more so I don't know what they did besides spend millions on things that didn't work and millions more on repairs and new designs.

[@gingermany6223]

We have a few areas where modal filters are built into the backs of our suburban cul-de-sacs (just a sidewalk connection with some simple landscaping) and they are so much better than dead-end cul-de-sacs.

[@Urban_LP]

This video made me want to study landscape architecture in addition to urban planning! This project is so nice. I want more of them in our cities across the province! Thanks for this video showing how great it is and having a passionate landscape architect to explain it to us.

[@agatien]

Tu peux! L'université de Montréal offre un Bacc et une maîtrise!

[@weatheranddarkness]

@@agatien Unfortunately if one wanted to study in english you do have to leave quebec, malgré la programme an architecture important a McGill, il n'a pas un de paysage.

[@xant8344]

Wish we had more like this in my city!

[@Mimi-Forever]

This was an awesome video. I love that you interviewed someone who actually worked on the project.

[@philippecourtemanche1994]

I could barely believe it when I saw the before and after. Incredible. Love this project. I want this for my own street

[@FullLengthInterstates]

A bigger challenge is adding pedestrian/ bike cut throughs to suburban culdesacs. If a mixed use path could be built it would be amazing for green connectivity, but culdesac residents dont want their "private" streets becoming a major transportation corridor. Often the only form of security that culdesacs have is being suspicious of strangers.

[@crowmob-yo6ry]

I blame the sensationalist news media and its constant fear-mongering about crime. As if drivers are perfect...

[@ttopero]

This modal filtering is great! Growing up at the end of a long culs de sac in Los Angeles, the most frustrating thing was having to walk over 500’ out of my block & down another 500’ to my back door neighbors house. We lived adjacent to the highway which was expanded into my property, but the increased margin of space could’ve been used as a pathway (not even paved) to connect the neighbors without needing to walk along the car path (using sidewalks, but it’s a car path).

[@hunterjaekel8168]

I wish normal cup-de-sacs were more like this. The way they are typically designed really struggles because while they are great at keeping out vehicular through traffic, they also make it hard to connect by active transportation. Hopefully we will be able to retrofit more cul-de-sacs with connoting foot paths.

[@GFmanaic]

Superb, more of this !! Show the people behind the traffic calming designs, show they are not inventions from Valerie Plante, they are thought up processes and demonstrably better!

[@TristouQC]

Great video!!! I used to live in the neighbourhood and never understood why the street was like that -- I had assumed it had been a park that had been asphalted over for some reason. And speaking of cul-de-sacs and walking: in my bf's neighbourhood of Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures in Québec City, there are a series of paths behind the houses that people can use to walk through the neighbourhood. But in fact, they exist to hide the electricity poles from the street without the expense of burying everything, so aside from a few that lead to some parks or get you close to a school, many others don't connect to anything, so good for walking the dog perhaps but not much else. It also means that as you explore them, you're spit out into a cul-de-sac every so often and you either have to turn around and retrace your steps, or walk to a main street to find the next section of path. It makes for a strange experience indeed: most paths are a shortcut to somewhere, but here, they take longer and don't really lead anywhere in particular. I actually like them -- most people have fences or tall hedges for privacy, making the paths feel like hedge mazes in places, but we have no separation. So it looks like an ordinary back yard since our neighbours have hedges, but every so often a jogger or a dog walker suddenly appears and walks across. No-one ever looks to the side to say hi, strangely enough, but it does make me feel a little more connected to the neighbourhood.

[@Pablo-t6q7h]

Beautiful space, feels great to see successful implementation of urbanism not focused on car users

[@ec1743]

Loving the direction the channel is taking! Seeing interviews from experts and really going deep into local issues and projects has been a really necessary balance to birds-eye-view urbanism videos. Not everything can be glimpsed on a short visit, or by trawling google maps and spreadsheets (though I love those videos too). Thank you for continuing to grow and improve, it really shows in the latest batch of videos!

[@mcphersonsound]

The neighborhood I grew up in was in watershed leading up to a delta. Plenty of bird sanctuaries and creeks. The designers decided to create paths between houses into the public spaces the creeks and sanctuaries create. This has created a neighborhood that isn't completely isolating, there are plenty of places to walk and enjoy within the space.

[@annr1403]

Hearing from the landscape architect on the project is great. What an improvement.

[@NickM-ko7tm]

I really liked this style of video from y'all ❤

[@muneebbasit8519]

This is amazing. There should be such local parks everywhere.

[@shaunbrowne3963]

I used to live in Montreal, and ‘oh, the Urbanity’ is an excellent way to see how the city has changed, advanced, and evolved. Thank you!

[@LeSingeauBleuet]

Good job! I live not too far from that place and discovered it 2 weeks ago while walking in that area and it's one of the best conversion I've seen in Montréal. Doesn't let the car through but bikes and pedestrians can, that's the way. Une bonne job.

[@Brackcycle]

This is truly great content! I hope people can see the point of these projects, but I really don't care if they don't. Parking and car through traffic desires have blinded anyone who can't see the joy this is bringing to the neighborhood.

[@aluet30]

Nous avons besoin de plus d’architectes paysagistes géniaux comme M. André Gratien. Merci beaucoup.

[@dawg_gee_man]

We need this sort of urbanism in Vancouver and Surrey!

[@SeanHemenway]

I love this style of video yall have been consistently releasing lately

[@swedneck]

here in the nordics it's very standard to have tiny cul-de-sacs connected with multi-use paths, and it works really well (aside from being low density, but hey that can be improved by turning single houses into duplexes or row homes).

[@milliedragon4418]

Apparently some people cul-de-sacs into a pickle ball court, temporarily. But apparently I had watched a video on somebody who did it and the city made a big stink about it. I mean really cul-de-sacs are just a blank canvas. So I look forward to hearing about new Cul-De-Sac type.

[@EdwardM-t8p]

It's nice that they were able to fit a small park, a drainage impound and two side streets in what used to be a fairly large asphalt city square. 😊 US and Ontario cities take note!

[@RainbowGin]

This was one of your best videos to date! loved having an expert on camera and actual examples of where the ideas came from

[@dapengu777]

Always good if someone how actuly have kids and live there is designingthe landscape!

[@MrBirdnose]

Where I currently live most cul-de-sacs are fenced on the backside with private property all around -- you can't walk through, you can only go around to the nearest through street.

[@jacobdgm]

I remember coming across what must have been the Carré Augier several years ago, walking through La Petite Patrie. I was baffled by the (at the time) enormous expanse of asphalt in the middle of a residential neighbourhood. Cool to learn that it initially had a purpose as a streetcar turnaround, and exciting to hear what's become of it now. Thanks for highlighting it in this video! I'll have to make another visit sometime and check it out in person!

[@thezenuna6307]

Many continous sidewalks were built on Verdun this summer as well!

[@weatheranddarkness]

Oh nice! I do deliveries in bits of Verdun but I hadn't noticed that!

[@essendossev362]

INCREDIBLE interview! Thanks for highlighting this! I've biked through some of those traffic-calming designs in Montreal and they really are so comfortable as a cyclist.

[@PhanieDaemonia]

I love this type of initiatives, which are greatly increasing everyone quality of life with such a small change!

[@Masterpiece4590]

Very well put together video Like always

[@stephanedorge9430]

Truly a great project and great to see it featured in this format to share with other Cities. Love it, Bon Travail !

[@gauisbaltardidnothingwrong5053]

Holy cow you two are pumping out videos so fast!!!

[@joshk5686]

This reminds me a lot of St Louis where they cut off a lot of streets in a similar manner. I think it was originally supposed to help with crime but it makes a lot of the neighborhood streets quiet like this.

[@StartCodonUST]

This channel always seems to introduce new framings that help acquaint people with ideas that make cities nicer places, and this is one of my favorites. If folks are so up in arms with cutting off through-routes in cities, to the extent that any concerns for safety, water drainage, or community spaces (or are these spaces going to ruin the character of the neighborhood?) would be dismissed in favor of allowing cars to go anywhere as fast as possible, then I wonder if they'd be similarly chomping at the bit to bulldoze all the houses on culs-de-sac cutting off the street grid in the suburbs. Where are the vociferous protests whenever a new subdevelopment is planned showing a disconnected street grid? Or is this a case of "Quiet, safe streets for me, not for thee"? I don't know if such an argument alone can convince folks who have knee-jerk aversion to anything preventing cars from going wherever they want as fast as they can. But seeing examples like this and getting more people to experience places like this will surely help move things in the right direction.

[@AnotherDuck]

Yep, there's a hypocrisy there. Most likely because a cul-de-sac is built that way from the start, while these projects modify something. It's exactly the same thing in my opinion, though.

[@baileybrown7119]

omg i live around the corner from here, i didnt even know they did this! The video doesnt really show the scale of ths square before being redone it really felt kinda scary walking through it as a pedestrian im SO glad they did this

[@elizabethdavis1696]

2:00 love the cat❤

[@xerox13ster]

at 6:48 the cat is walking under the footbridge as he's talking about the flooding risk and I hope kitty doesn't get washed away there during a big storm.

[@stevemiller7949]

My city (like most) badly needs this kind of street thinking.😊😊❤

[@alex8ge8]

As always, great video!

[@killerspade]

The effects of vehicle turning minimums really can't be understated! Until we invest in smaller garbage and fire trucks there is certainly a hard limit on how narrow we can design streets and corner radii

[@agatien]

Montréal uses 18 wheelers to clear the snow... You can't imagine how hard it is to accomodate them!

[@jeffj7287]

​@@agatien me I can imagine not having any more vehicles and just let every one shovel. Like this way better for the environment. Also no more vehicles and trucks. Let trucs dump all food or anything at the beginning of the island and people are using the rem or the metro or bikes to bring it to shops. No more traffic and no more pollution on the island!

[@ronvandereerden4714]

There are many similar mini-parks in Vancouver's West End, built (in the 1980s-ish) specifically to discourage cars short-cutting through the neighbourhood. More recently many streets are fully or partly blocked where they meet a busy commercial arterial. These are antidotes to the war on humans.

[@Alex_Plante]

It's also a great place to practice skateboarding! Cul-de-sacs are great, except that when you have too many cul-de-sacs, traffic becomes conentrated in a few arteries, many of which become stroads. You cannot dissociate the numerous cul-de-sacs of mid-20th Century suburbia from the resulting stroads.

[@0744401]

I can see how much my city has changed since I think... 2017? When Madame Plante became mayoress. The city has changed in many ways. I go back to the old places I used to hang out with my friends back then. Bunch of small things changed a little bit everywhere to make walking around the city more comfortable and easy. I got myself a bike to travel because of how much more convenient it is, now.

[@jamesbray46]

This video accidentally proves its point extremely well at 3:51 where the car captured in the background doesn't even slow down for the stop sign

[@dwc1964]

one of the things I really liked about Berkeley when I moved there in the mid-1980s was that they had certain intersections blocked to car traffic in the residential neighborhoods for just this effect

[@Damorann]

De belles raisons d'être fier d'être Montréalais !

[@danielbougie8890]

Great work. Would like to see more videos on similar projects in Montreal. How about an urban planning perspective on Henri-Bourassa facelift?

[@nthused]

As a designer of subdivisions I do my best to reduce or eliminate cul-de-sacs. No.1 they SUCK area and increase pavement. Some clients really like them - but there are ways to create a “private” street without using a 100’ DIA. of pavement.

[@melondoo6129]

it makes sure traffic is for those going to their homes, not thru their homes. Great video! i loved the whole interview with such interesting ideas!

[@AnotherDuck]

Having a drainage problem is a great excuse to tear up some of the non-permeable surfaces. "We would love to have more car-access here, but unfortunately it's not possible without risking flooding. Too bad; we have to do this." And here I've always wondered why American cul-de-sacs don't have any pedestrian or bike paths continuing. We have them all over the place, and they increase accessibility by a lot. It means you can easily travel to areas that are physically close without having to drive around the entire neighbourhood. It's especially good for kids who can't drive but want to visit friends.

[@adambuesser6264]

I like the freedom of movement in and around suburbs, mainly in the US and Canada. I do not drive but walking around the neighborhood should have a place to eat, shop and park nearby..

[@Andre-qo5ek]

"unfair war on cars" humbug... cars do not have rights...

[@AdeleMcAlear]

There are 3 buildings on each side of Augier that no longer have street-front access. The corner buildings have access from Louis-Hémon on the side, the other ends have side access from the ruelle, but the middle buildings have no front, side, or rear vehicle access. Some may be frustrated with bringing in groceries, receiving deliveries, or having no area for a moving truck to access. Others may see this as a good thing with the greenspace directly out your front door. I remember driving through this intersection a few years ago, before the first barrier went up and thinking it was an incredibly confusing and dangerous layout.

[@agatien]

1. They have vehicular access through the alley. 2. I spoke to two people who "lost" vehicular access. They are thrilled. they say they now live in their own private park.

[@fowlerj111]

Excellent point drawing the comparison to cul-de-sacs

[@jezzarisky]

I have noticed that some developments where I live in the US have actually started incorporating pedestrian cut throughs and paths as part of cul-de-sacs. It's not every development unfortunately, but I was surprised that some have acknowledged the need for pedestrian movement within the mess of suburban development and try to make movement around the area a little better.

[@SwiftySanders]

Whats wrong with smaller more efficient fire trucks

[@agatien]

I imported one from Germany. 4x4, seats 9, 7.5m long. A beast! They are great. It comes down to design philosophy.

[@chow-chihuang4903]

@@agatien We need more people like you, willing to buck tradition and try out what others have proven to work well. I’ve seen videos that include comparisons between US/Canadian fire-fighting vehicles and the more compact ones common in the rest of the world. They seem equally capable in terms of pumping power or ladder reach, yet are smaller, more maneuverable and more standardized (which can also make them cheaper).

[@agatien]

@@chow-chihuang4903 To be fair... I turned mine into a camper to cross deserts! But The local firemen sure seemed to love it!

[@delftfietser]

If all it came down to was design philopsophy that excluded the complexities of the lived culture, the local mangerial class would have made things as we see in Europe. One might as well criticise the Dutch for not jettisoning the omafiets for the superior mountain bike, superior in the sense that the brandweerwagen appears when compared American firetruck outside of a use and practice in a culture it was not made for.

[@agatien]

@delftfietser Except there's literally no reason for such huge fire trucks other than "that's how we've always done it"

[@jperr]

Amazingly interesting video. Thank you!

[@jonathanstensberg]

The great thing about cars: a deviation like having to drive an extra block to go around this will take mere seconds.

[@natehunter2961]

Very cool. I think for the most part culdesacs shouldn’t be allowed unless it’s a modal filter.

[@KJSvitko]

Daily exercise is key to as healthy life. Ride a bicycle to school, work or for fun. Riding a bicycle is a great way to exercise. Ebikes are bringing many older adults back to cycling. Cities need to do more to encourage people to ride bicycles. Safe protected bike lanes and trails are needed so adults and children can ride safely. Speak up for bicycles in your community. Bicycles make life and cities better. Ask your local transportation planner and elected officials to support more protected bike lanes and trails. Children should be riding a bicycle to school and not be driven in a minivan. Be healthier and happier. Ride a bicycle regularly. Make a bicycle your transportation option for short distance travel.

[@Dedian_]

Very nice. Well done, love your vids

[@AungusMacgyver]

Great idea!! I just wish it wasn't all cold concrete and metal. The plants help but a little color elsewhere would go a long way toward making it a more human and inviting space.

[@agatien]

wait until the Corten rusts. it'll add warm colours.

[@khulhucthulhu9952]

modal filters are the way to go!

[@pontoboi8881]

Great Video!

[@seantroy3172]

We need more of this guy in a city near you!

[@edvingjervaldsaeter3659]

One thing that they should do is to add a path or some plates on the grate path so that people with high heels and pets with smaller paws can walk on the grates

[@agatien]

The grating is ADA compliant.

[@KJSvitko]

Love it. Great design.

[@Ssarevok]

My hometown in Netherlands is full of cul-de-sacs, but all of them have bike and/of pedestrian paths at the end, connecting to the street behind it.

[@laerite]

im loving the interviews, but when are you going to interview the cats! we keep seeing them but not hearing their opinions

[@Noeffortvideos]

Great job, i love continuous sidewalks !

[@sams3015]

Looks great

[@TrickiVicBB71]

That is pretty cool. Would love this tried out in Edmonton

[@Gary_C]

Awesome video! Thanks

[@webchimp]

Culs-de-Sac. Thanks Rollie

[@jari.ba44]

I love this! Nice video :)

[@t23001]

Basement flooding is a huge generator of anxiety and is very costly in heath, dollars, lost property, and time. Hopefully the storm water can drain out of the basin quickly after storms. Otherwise the smell and mosquitos will become an issue.

[@mattobadia]

How cool! You guys filmed on Villeray & saint Dominique. My brother in law lives on that block, and my father in laws cafe is a block away!

[@victorouantho]

J'ai marché au carré Augier avant hier! J'étais curieux de savoir ça venait d'où! Content d'être tombé sur votre vidéo! Très cool J'habite en face de l'île au volcan qui est un projet similaire quoi que temporaire. Ça a vraiment changé toute la vibe du quartier. Je souhaite la même chose au monde du carré Augier Just walked by carré Augier the other day. I was curious about what it was all about. Nice to stumble on a video about it. Thanks! I also live by l'île aux volcans, which is a similar project although temporary. And it changed the vibe of the whole neighborhood. I invite you to report on it if you haven't already did!

[@MsMarmima]

The made a video about it not long ago!

[@victorouantho]

@MsMarmima ho wow thanks a lot! Ill go look it up! Just found this channel!

[@TheLiamster]

I think the cat loves it

[@ruarimaccormack4089]

Toronto if doug ford wasn’t premier

[@LaurentGloaguen]

Oh, I remember the public consultations on this particular project. Lots of people were crying about their lost parking spaces and the restrictions on their freedom of movement by car. Also, many were debating whether to put in benches that would attract the homeless. And some were also concerned that there was too much vegetation in the project and not enough lighting, and that, inevitably, women would be sexually assaulted if they tried to cross this urban jungle. No, I'm not even exaggerating.

[@agatien]

And the world didn't end once the project was built.

[@kollibriterresonnenblume2314]

The stamp of approval from the cats is all I need to know

[@rhetor4mentor13]

I would love to see a similar interview in a few months once the renovations of Henri Bourassa have had some mileage, so to speak.

[@Richard660318]

Yes, you don’t want car traffic though residential neighborhoods but suburbs force people to drive and I live in a walkable part of the city that is overrun by cars trying to zip to and from the suburbs.