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I'm not a city planning expert, so I have no idea. It's a fun problem, though: From Wikipedia, Montreal seems to have a lower density than my home city (Porto)
by sergiosgc 7y ago
I'm not a city planning expert, so I have no idea. It's a fun problem, though:
From Wikipedia, Montreal seems to have a lower density than my home city (Porto), at 4k/km² vs 7k/km², but higher total urban population (3.5M vs 1.5M). Porto has very decent traffic (rush hour lasts 2h, entry/exit times peak at 30min).
It's either the total population that is causing stress in Montreal, or traffic planning. Porto did a very thorough change in traffic in the 90s, to great effect. Outer rings to avoid passing traffic going into the city, an inner traffic distribution ring, channels to have traffic avoid the old city center (centuries old, poor fit for auto traffic).
- mgbmtl 7y agoI had misread your initial comment. As a north-american, I often hear people arguing in favour of more sprawl. A detached house and minimum two cars for a family. I think we agree that we can have nice 'small' but dense cities. We don't all need to be New York, but we also don't want to clutter the planet with suburbs.
- baud147258 7y ago> Outer rings to avoid passing traffic going into the city, an inner traffic distribution ring, channels to have traffic avoid the old city center It's funny how it look like a quick description on how traffic is organized around Paris, which is heavily gridlocked. Of course, that's two different metro area and I'm not a specialist on why we have traffic issues here in Paris.
- sergiosgc 7y agoScale destroys all planning. Paris is ten times the size of Porto...
- baud147258 7y agoI guessed it was something like this.