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- Title
Penser la mobilité, penser Montréal. La planification du tracé du réseau initial de métro, 1960-1966.
- Authors
GILBERT, DALE
- Abstract
This article addresses the factors that influenced the choice of routes for the initial subway network in Montréal. The author shows that the integration of a subway into the urban fabric was in large part guided by a twin desire of the municipal administration, in charge of the project, to use the subway as a vector of urban growth and to protect some thoroughfares from the inconveniences generated by its construction. The ensuing tensions between an intransigent administration and its neighbouring municipalities as well as the technological choices that were made explain why the subway network was almost exclusively limited to the territory of Montréal.
- Subjects
MONTREAL (Quebec); CANADA; MONTREAL (Quebec). Societe de transport de Montreal; SUBWAY design &; construction; URBAN planning; REGIE autonome des transports parisiens; SUBWAY car design &; construction; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Revue d'Histoire de l'Amérique Française, 2014, Vol 68, Issue 1/2, p57
- ISSN
0035-2357
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1032019ar