Nuns’ Island: how dense do you go?
La Presse ponders how dense Nuns’ Island could get as the REM prepares to open there, and office buildings are converted to apartments.
-
Kate
Reply
SANTÉ QUÉBEC COVID NUMBERS
Deaths in Quebec:
20,015
As of April 17
Numbers from Santé Québec
Updated irregularly now
Canada Covid epidemiology update
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Francesco on Bagels and pizzas on the chopping block
- dwgs on Logan Mailloux makes NHL debut with Habs
- Ian on Ecostupidity in aces
- DeWolf on Rent: Legault is still at sea
- DeWolf on Ecostupidity in aces
- Kate on Parts of SRB Pie-IX fencing to be replaced
- Blork on Parts of SRB Pie-IX fencing to be replaced
☠️
INCIDENT TOTE BOARD 2024
Island homicides
8
Pedestrians killed
4
Cyclists killed
0
Pages
Other levels of gov’t
Sideblog projects
Enviro Montreal is a Twitter feed that follows environment news.
Archives
Pages rescued from montreal.com
Meta
DeWolf 14:29 on 2023-01-25 Permalink
Hopefully as dense as possible. There are several thousand units proposed for the giant strip mall that sits next to the REM station, and several hundred more already under construction nearby. There’s absolutely no reason to hold back. You can build housing for another ten thousand people without even touching the southern part of the island, where residents can continue living their pseudo-suburban dream.
Nicole 17:42 on 2023-01-25 Permalink
I live on Nuns’ Island, where they have been building high-rise apartments and condominiums nonstop–but there has not been equivalent planning and resources dedicated to improving the infrastructure to support the added population. This has created traffic problems (although adding two traffic lights has helped to some extent) as well as overcrowding in the elementary schools (the second was built recently, but we already need a third one) and on public transit (which hopefully the REM will mitigate, but we’ll see).