As we can see from the above image, the pedestrians on the sidewalk will be coming within inches of vehicle traffic. One can only imaging the dangers involved with walking along a street where side view mirrors will literally be zooming right beside you while you try to walk along the sidewalk.
When we add the STM buses into the mix, with their oversized and notoriously dangerous side view mirrors, Cote Ste Catherine will become one of the most dangerous streets to walk along in the whole city.
This will be a …

Recently it has been brought to my attention that the city of Montreal is planning to install a bike path on Cote Ste Catherine. This certainly comes as news to me, as I actually live on Cote Ste Catherine!
The bike path that the city intends to create on Cote Ste Catherine will be dangerous to cyclists, drivers and pedestrians. While the idea of creating a bike path on Cote Ste Catherine may have some merit, and will certainly have supporters, the city must adjust it’s plan for the path, to …

Cote Ste Catherine is a long and winding street which half circles the mountain. It is dangerous for drivers since it curves quite a bit, and the lanes seem to expand and contract in width all along the street. Furthermore, in recent years it has become an absolute speed way. At night it is a main racetrack that downtown party-goers use to navigate around the city. During the day, it is a main thoroughfare used in the morning by groggy people driving to their downtown jobs, and in the afternoon …

(CEP News) Ottawa – The Canadian housing market slowed significantly in the first six months of 2008 compared to same period last year, according to figures released Thursday by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA).The number of existing home sales in the first half of 2008 was down 13.1% compared to the same period last year, the CREA report showed, with a seasonally adjusted 181,716 houses sold through the multiple listing service (MLS) between January and June.
On a seasonally adjusted basis, dollar volume was valued at $36.0 billion in the …

By Jenny Wagler, National Post
New condos are still shooting up to crowd the Toronto skyline, but behind the scenes the condo boom times are ending, a new report predicts.
“We’re expecting a slowdown in 2009,” said Jane Renwick, editor and vice-president of Urbanation, a condominium market research company.
“So we would say that we were at 22,000 [condo] sales at the end of 2007. We’re predicting 16,000 sales to round out this year. And we’re expecting sales to dip beyond that in 2009.”
Urbanation released a report yesterday about the Toronto condo market’s …