Something like that would sure beat what's there now. Some city uses in the city.

There's too much park in one place, and suspiciously near the cars. Why not split up that acreage in smaller bits and distribute it around the city where it's needed? As it stands, it looks a bit too much like "Towers in the park".

What we have here is an expressway on the ground.

Here's one from 1932:

Love those elms.

http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=901,1445676&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

Il faut surtout penser à long terme puisque l'Hôtel-Dieu changera de vocation lorsque le personnel sera déménagé au nouvel hôpital. De nombreux espaces de stationnements pourraient être reconvertis et l'immeuble a une certaine valeur architecturale.

Toutefois, la mairie d'arrondissement devra assumer son leadership dans ce cas-ci. Lors des consultations publiques, il a été impossible de s'entendre sur l'utilisation de l'espace, coin sud-est. Il en résulte qu'on y retrouve un terrain gazonné vide aujourd'hui. Ces consultations sont utiles si la population en arrive à une conclusion, ne produire aucune solution rend les débats inutiles.

Yes, I'd eliminate the side road and put something nice there in its place. I enjoyed cycling through Parc Jeanne-Mance but then it just cuts off and I had to simply cross at the intersection (I was going to Alternatives).

The main way to make this space less car-centred is to bring the tram in on avenue du Parc. Oh, avenue des Pins would be nice too, but it isn't as important a priority. And plant trees. I do also think there should be some built elements, especially in light of our weather.

I think a roundabout would have worked marvellously, too, but we don't seem to like those here, do we?

The essential characteristics of a car-centred space with lots of grass around it (nature band-aid) remain unchanged.

The official PR term for this is a "green space", but they may as well have just painted it green -- less CO2 required for the upkeep.

Cyclists ride along pine ave and then hop on to the pedestrian path to go north. Then there is no way they can connect from this pedestian path onto the parc avenue path farther along. There needs to be bicycle-pedestrian separated path from pine avenue/plateau area.

The new mayor of the Plateau Mont Royal has spoken of the need of a bike path along pine avenue. A safe east-west route through the southern Plateau area is MISSING, and must be a major priority.

The city has a lot of work to do in creating a network of safe "active-transport" transportation corridors for cyclists.

25 minutes is a good baseline time, but remember to share the road and don't run down pedestrians.

The amazing ski trail that travels on some of this road is now open for the winter. Start at Parc avenue and Rachel and ski to the summit. It is the best urban cross-country ski on eastern north america.

And, it is done best during a winter storm! 45 minutes uphill, then a 30 minute all-downhill superfantastic fun-fest.

I still think a roundabout (with an art piece or a newly commissioned monument of some kind) would have been brilliant here, given that they decided on that huge exit to Pine Ave West, it wouldn't have been such a stretch.

Ah oui, j'oubliais, il y a une «piste cyclable». Une des pires pistes en ville, en fait. Et j'suis pas le seul à le penser: http://bit.ly/6dzfbl

En gros, c'est un excellent changement, mais ils auraient pu penser aux cyclistes.

PS: Très belle photo!

Guillaume, la prise est de la tour Air Transat?