taking the crazy train
So there was this guy... who won the undergraduate irritation tiara in the linguistics department while I was there a few years back. Like all linguists, he has a second hobby, and he's just as obsessive/compulsive about it. His Montreal Metro site is pretty well known (and you know he's a linguist when he posts it in Catalan and Esperanto) -- and has some crazy-ass cool shit like this: (click on map)
The teal line makes a lot of sense. There's already a train tunnel through Mount Royal, and a line from downtown along the 40 to the airport would be a godsend.
The yellow line extension would make the Pine/Parc intersection even more of a futuristic nightmare. A tram would really work best here.
The pink line however, seems to me like something drawn with lipstick after a crack binge.
Well, at least he didn't put a metro stop on Mt-Royal.
How did he come up with these names? Ukraine? Frobisher? Maison Radio-Canada? Someone's gotta do better...
I think these lines would get named after Quebecois heroes. Like "ligne Rene-Levesque", "ligne Gilles-Vigneault", "ligne Richard-Desjardins"...
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He's definitely seen something of the London Underground. The Turquoise line resembles the Hammersmith & City line (pink) and the pink line is an equivalent of the circle line (yellow). Good old PC brits, they even have a French underground map.
I think that the Westmount stop may not actually be in Westmount.
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