Montreal in infrared
Le Devoir looks at various views of the city taken with an infrared camera – largely showing how cars and paving radiate heat.
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Ephraim 13:53 on 2022-08-15 Permalink
I love tree covered streets… but it only works if Hydro starts putting their lines underground or in the backyards.
DeWolf 15:32 on 2022-08-15 Permalink
You can still have a thick canopy of trees even with hydro lines. Check out these streets:
https://goo.gl/maps/jCLWZbzn6MjpPhaD6
https://goo.gl/maps/AGWd1yjkF6pwaBmq8
The Plateau has been doing a particularly good job of adding greenery to streets that were completely barren, like Napoleon and Marie-Anne just east of St-Urbain. It makes a huge difference in terms of pedestrian comfort (not to mention fighting the urban heat island effect) and it’s a shame many other boroughs haven’t been as aggressive about urban greening. I’m thinking in particular of the more suburban parts of NDG which have some really awful streets like Somerled and Fielding that have vast expanses of concrete and asphalt without a tree or shrub in sight.
mare 22:01 on 2022-08-15 Permalink
Despite Hydro lines, my street has ample tree cover. Once in a while a branch breaks off and a car gets damaged a bit but that’s the price of doing business. (I think the city will pay for the damage, even though HydroQuebec does the pruning.)
I’d love to have buried hydro lines, but the downside of that is it will make a patchwork of the street or sidewalk surface, because there are so many renovations going on where the hydro entry is changed or moved.
Also, LOL at DeWolf’s Google Map Hong Kong links. At least we know that Montreal’s streets aren’t censored (yet).