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I've copied into the end of this message an article from today's Montreal Gazette, on just released figures from Statistics Canada (nicknamed "StatsCan"), about commuting levels in various urban areas in Canada. It may be useful for anyone interested in such statistics debt consolidators.

A couple of comments on the story I linked this list to a couple of days ago ("Village de la Gare"):

1. A brief explanation for those who might have been mystified by the term "dépanneur": this word is Canadian French (and Quebec English) for a convenience store. (People from other French-speaking countries are initially mystified when they hear someone saying they are going to the "mechanic" for some milk and potato chips, as this is what "dépanneur" means elsewhere...consolidation loans )

2. Cooke, Bombardier, Lesage Inc. are a developer corporation, not to be confused with Bombardier, the giant manufacturer of trains, snowmobiles, airplanes etc. Bombardier just happens to be the last name of one of the principals in this developer firm.

3. Finally, and more to the point: One thing that makes me wonder how ultimately successful this new development will be is the fact that (in order to please local residents who wanted the development to keep a "rural" feel) overall densities were not kept as high as they could have been, with the result that the maximum walk to the station is expected to be from 15 to 20 minutes. Even for me, who enjoys walking as a pastime, that would be far too long a distance to go creditcard, especially in the winter. When I lived in the Rosemont district of Montreal, just half a block away from the intersection of two major bus routes, I would occasionally find myself forced to walk ten minutes to the metro station when a bus did not show up (a not infrequent occurrence). Even in good weather, I would have much preferred to be able to simply take the bus and get to the metro after a five minute trip, when I needed to get to point B in a short time period.

Now, in the winter climate of the Montreal area, between -5 and -10 degrees (Celsius) is relatively mild, and this is what we generally experience over a 4-month period or more. Quite often though, especially in January and February, it can go to -20 or lower, and even worse with the wind chill. For example, tomorrow, we expect a *high* of -20, with wind chills taking it down to -40. Now, in *that* weather, even *I* would not want to brave a *ten* minute walk just to get to the only transit stop in town. The fifteen to twenty minute walks many residents of Village de la Gare would have to expect would probably be extremely unpleasant under such conditions stored value debit cards. This is especially so when you have relatively low densities, since spread-out buildings do not break the wind as well as buildings put up in extremely close proximity.

I suspect that a development built at high densities, as proposed in the carfree city reference design, *especially* when combined with narrow streets arranged in an irregular pattern, would make a deep winter walk to the transit stop immensely more pleasurable. (Or less *un*pleasant, at the very least.) Narrow streets combined with an irregular street pattern (and the use of arcades on public squares and wider avenues) ought to have the effect of breaking the wind and protecting walkers from its chilling effects. Looking at the photos of southern European pedestrian areas on the Carfree site, I marvel at at how much better suited this kind of urban design would be to our winters than the spread out grids we currently use!