Comment 31623

By Jonathan Dalton (registered) | Posted June 10, 2009 at 10:56:05

I could spend whole days there just appreciating the urban form. This is a city as motorized and sprawled out as Hamilton, yet the downtown has remained mostly intact (though there have been setbacks). Aside from the obvious 400 year history, I would attribute their success to heritage preservation laws that go way, way back. If we had saved our great buildings even from the 1800's, Hamilton would be a tourist destination.

Another observation about Quebec is that you don't find surface parking lots downtown - practically at all. Yet with the high tourism and the downtown employment people still manage to find parking. I was there during the new years 2008 and we found a spot in an underground garage, no problem. Buses were also packed of course. They simply do it right - parking costs what it's worth there.

It could get even better - here are some plans for their own LRT: http://www.tramwayquebec.org/?page=prese... There's a route map at the bottom.

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