Ça donne des idées!

The documentary is mainly about downtown and it's reality which is totally different from the rest of the city. Showing Montreal North and it's poverty is not accurate. RDP is a special hub and Ile bizarre is also a special hub. What makes downtown is mostly people coming from out of town. Soon they'll understand.

FWI This video appears to be pretty old, like pre-pandemic old, judging only by the "Ecobicis" that are shown, as thay are an old model that aren't in use anymore. And also, CDMX has had a sort of "cycling revolution" from the pandemic onwards, as delivery apps of all things got more people on bikes, and in the past administration 206.3 km of new bike lanes were built.

If mtl is the best city… the world sux… i lived 10 years in mtl. Never again…

Let’s talk about the ripple effects. The high crime rate - gangsterism or mafia style run townships, poor management of immigrants and illegal foreigners, the high unemployment rate, the province next to CT, the Eastern Cape with almost 50% unemployment…. Fix those issues and townships will reduce drastically.

I love this ! Thank you for the Visionaries and people who did it ❤

If you’re English speaking, be prepared to be frowned upon. From my experience it sucks.

Come on, watching your videoes,,,, you just hate urban devolpment... how the fuc should it be less step? it´s a bridge,, it´s probably gonna go over sometthing

Hold up here. You can't make a video about this city as if there's zero political tensions when Montreal is the HONG KONG of Quebec and Canada! Being controlled on a Federal level by the English Canadian capital of Ottawa set in the neighboring province of Ontario, while the Quebec provincial powers are obliged to adhere to from our Quebec capital in Quebec City. We Montrealers have a MASSIVE affordable housing crisis today 2024 due to the total OVERFLOW of illegal & legal (mostly English btw) IMMIGRANTS that have drowned our socialist programs! Cause what makes Montreal unique is the total social safety nets that were fought dearly to gain during our parents' baby boom generation, where the French Québécois "Revolution Tranquille" grew all of our independent institutions from Hydro Quebec, to the BANQ, to CDPQ, etc. The Anglo liberals at that time actually tried to PREVENT the Québécois culture & recognition to expand. So that's for important bouts of context to have in mind. French culture and language are constantly in a tug a war with the Anglos. There used to be a truce about 20 years running, but that's long gone cause we Québécois (finally!) woke up about being silently exploited (e.g. Anglo universities charging peanuts for international tuitions while our main French Universities just as the rest of the world's universities don't, and then the English universities suddenly find funds to compensate the now enforced tuition hikes as the French QC minister set the scale back to normalcy!). What country accommodates illegal immigrants as if it's normal when it's not? It started with this nonsense with the pop-up of "reasonable accommodation" laws - zero common sense for solid boundaries to be respected! That was before the advent of the woke culture that totally ransacked Montreal just as strongly as other cities and communities globally experienced. A city is made & shaped by the PEOPLE & its COMMUNITIES. The district of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve is POOR. It's the BRONX of Montreal. It's slowly changing, but it's snail-paced. So for sure, housing suddenly increased there cause there wasn't anything maintained! The Plateau is totally now a France French ghetto with every France immigrant living there. The district needs a complete clean up too since it's run down and still emits "tribal" boho vibes. The Mayor Plante being obsessed with bikes totally revamped the main streets for bikes lanes (we are NOT AMSTERDAM) pushing cars and parking spots to oblivion! 50 different countries meshed up in 1 small island that is Montreal where it's residents ENDLESSLY PROTEST at EVERY TURN. Why??! You choose this city! You wanted to rebuild your life anew? Don't bring your vitriol and wars from your own country that has NOTHING to do with us! Flags from every country are plastered on apartment building windows, stickers or flags on cars, etc. Hey, man! This is Montreal QUEBEC, not your past country! Adapt TO US. We're not the ones that have immigrated, you are! Just because we kicked religion to the curb back in the 70s after the dark ages of being totally controlled by the church and corrupt totalitarian Duplessis French government does NOT mean, we're passive! You can't greenwash a utopia of parks, alleyways, etc. without taking a good hard look at what's in front of you first and foremost! You want to do PR? Go ahead. But locals aren't blind to what's ACTUALLY going on here. Boundaries NEED to be enforced and construction follows suit. Salut bien.

Montreal is a poor city with outdated buildings, bad transit and road infastructure, homeless people and crime and rude people

i still insist that bike paths should be safe meaning that they can not garanty paths next to streets safety bikes away from motor vehecles how many people have died no formal safety road instruction course like motor vihecles

Well people won’t like what I am gonna say, but if you wanna crack something big live this city the moment you dream big because it’s good for those who likes to settle for mediocre. If someone is up for debate google the information and then hit me up. 🤙

About to leave MTL next week to go back home to Calgary. Stayed here for 6 years to work after I graduated uni.. I already miss it. The city always feels so alive and you can see the joie de vivre in people that you don't see in the other anglo cities in Canada. In Toronto / Vancouver / Calgary it's always about money, status, career etc. and they wonder why they're so angry and jaded all the time.

the pot holes and contruction mafia goto go! i took the night bus and the pot holes are shakking the bus! its horrible here...the leeches sucking all our public money goto go!

Montreal is a city in construction

I was enjoying this clip till Luc Ferandes showed up… many Montrealers despise him. He went too far with the planters and bicycle lanes.

Life is every where, despite bureaucratie

I admit I follow you and enjoy your Life Sized City series. I already know you don't wear a helmet while riding nor does another guy I follow, "Shifter", who has talked about his not wearing a helmet. Well I respect the both of you for your choices but for my own purposes, I do wear a helmet. I have always worn one and recently, now that I'm in my 80's and have been subjected to a few incidents recently while riding a bike and an electric trike, I was gratefull, and still am, for my decission. Otherwise keep up your good work, it's very educational .

I am from Montreal, live in Montreal, and have learned much on my city from this video. Subscribed.

The production value doesn't equate the sub count. Moneh Moneh :)

How old is this video? Luc hasn’t been a mayor for a very long time. He’s a radio host now.

The video itself was quite good, very detailed, and comprehensive. I just don't agree with how badly the city is managed. Nothing against the person who made the video. "Nobody wants trafic." Yeah, and in removing the roads from automobiles, it makes it almost impossible to go shopping, eating in a restaurant or going to the cinema. That's why most people I know, including myself, don't go in Montreal. We have a lot of great, even better restaurants here, and we go in the city only if it's absolutely necessary. The land my house is sitting on is 400 feet large, by 1385 feet deep. My kids and now grandkids have plenty to play on it. Since the city makes us, people who live in the countryside unwelcome, we refuse to spend a dime in Montreal. We spend our money locally instead. They wanted it to "be like Paris," as the mayor said, so be it. But being like Paris isn't the flex you think it is. It's just bad that people who live in South Shore and North Shore have to pay for Montreal public transport, which they don't use. It's just an example of bad and unfair administration. Municipale and provincial. I wish they could make the users pay more, as it's almost as if they punish these people for having a car. I'm glad to live outside the limits, so I don't have to pay that punishing tax. Also, most people are paying the same amount for a renting of a 5½ appartement that you pay for a mortgage, the difference is that after 25 years, the house is paid in full, and you only have the taxes to worry about. After 25 years of paying rent, when you move, you don't have anything, and if you have kids, then there's nothing left for them, which is absurd and egotistical. I want my kids to have something after I'm not there anymore. Did I tell you that I also bought 85 acres of woodland? So the kids are able to play in a natural place, that will one day be their own land? In my opinion, if you want to live in a city, you have to deal with the inconveniences, like having cars and traffic, but today, people don't want to deal with the inconveniences of their poor choices, so they put these on other people. Anyway, as I said before, it's not on the person who made the video as it's very well done and narrated. It's just me expressing my opinions and thoughts about big cities in general, and Montreal in particular.

Beautiful rendition. Well done. Thank you.

Right, perhaps it should be mentioned that all those good things your good friend was responsible for correlate with sizeable increase in standstill traffic pollution, exponential rise in rent as well as a major increase in commercial unit vacancy rates within his former fiefdom of Plateau-Mt-Royal. He also stopped snow removal in the district when it precipitated at inconvenient times, like the week-end. Two years after his own political party was elected to power for the whole city (for the very first time ever), he "resigned" with disdain, trying to publicly shame the party over a pitiful disagreement.

Those modernist towers in wind swept plazas are the least human-friendly parts of Milan.

A city that is bilingual but certainly not french

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Montreal is so boring No CANADA Day 🇨🇦parade, No New Years Fireworks, No more Just for Laughs festival, because of No money, bike lanes everywhere shitty roads. It’s gets pretty dirty as well! Highest taxes in North America, can’t even get a doctor in Quebec.

montreal sucks like all other car-infested half-assed canadian cities. cars rule over people in cities in Canada. montreal had potential to take another route to people base city but, lost it long ago to cars, lots of cars everywhere.

winter is too long bike lanes only work, 6 months maybe

Tak for den gode begrundet historie, der viser bevaringsværdigheden af lokale milijøer👍❤

From Copenhagenize to de-Kyivize?

As an almost lifelong citizen of Montreal, I must say that some parts of this made me almost emotional! it's beautiful to see my city through loving though exterior eyes. Very good documentary! Thank you! I did learn quite a few things!

This entire argument is debunked by one question: Would you still want to give the government unrestricted control over your ability to reasonably travel (meaning get somewhere in as short of a period as possible without a plane) by having all motorized transport be in the form of public buses, etc, if Trump were the one controlling it? We don't strip the government of power to kneecap the good guys. We strip the government of power to kneecap the bad guys, because there's never a zero percent chance that someone like Trump gets elected. The people cannot be trusted to elect good people, so we MUST limit the power of those who get elected. Switching to a system where you don't allow cars, and people's only options are walking, biking, or government controlled buses opens the door for massive abuse of anyone the government deems to be less than. As a black person, the idea of having the government control my ability to get around TERRIFIES me.

A lot of people feel entitled to others spaces, while people should be able to pass through, it chokes out locals. We see a similar effect in unchecked tourism. The town i live in used to be very active, lively and a promising place to settle, i never saw this however, when i was born the town had just hit it's all time low. And the traffic is a huge part! It's meant to be a riverside town, surrounded by a lot of nature, but that nature got chopped down to make rented houses and uneeded roundabouts, and the traffic can be heard all through the place, making the air unpleasant and thick, and near impossible for locals to drive to work. I myself had to come in and out of the town for college, and yet i was late 9/10 BECAUSE driver's all decided to cut through my town everyday at the exact rush hour i had to take my bus. Luckily, my college was understanding, but it really sucks!

awesome documentary!! my take on what makes montreal what it is is how easy it is to just BE and be together if we want to! 36:25 NO, many montreal cyclists need to abide by the rules and regulations that allow them to share the road first… but they’re not willing to put in the effort.

One could shoot such a documentary about just any city in the world, with such biased views. Montreal is nowhere close to making it to the top 10 cities to live in. I’m entering my 3rd year here after living in Barcelona, Beirut, Doha, Yokohama and Paris. Nowhere have I seen so much infrastructure in a state of disrepair, roads being rebuilt year after year, construction sites everywhere and apathetic people accepting it all. Not the worst place to live, for sure, but definitely at the bottom of my personal list.

A very big bias towards Ferrandes politics...the people that live in this neighbourhood now are millionaires from France, it did nothing good for Montrealers

Why did I think this was johnny Knoxville

To me is like a teenager girlfriend I will always remember with love from highschool but I would never return with her as an adult. Happy life here in the cow city of Canada.

It's quite shocking to see the scenes in the Village then versus now. Will never understand why the City decided to kill the yearly installation of the suspended balls over Ste-Catherine, one of the most successful urban-art interventions of recent times.

You’re full of it.

Highways reduce that......MERICA!

Dude step away from the University BS! Do these folks pay taxes? Do they buy taxed fuel? These “parasites" are paying for the roads this neighbourhood enjoys...

Yes, and guess what? The less PUBLIC TRANSPORT the more "parasites" there are.

Thank for these wise words. I thought roads were built for that reason. Always keep in mind you are talking about people driving vehicles. You know what it remembers me? Fascists said that people are Parasites and sent them to concentration camps. Never forget this one.

Good grief Charlie Brown

Do they have an alternative?

Hell ya Varukers t-shirt @ 33:21!

Hi! I live in Montreal!… I hate it! Could be because I’ve also lived in Europe… but Montreal is disgusting… language sucks, roads suck, rent is expensive, dirty, expensive, homeless…. Did you really say “one of the best cities to live in, in the world” absolute lie!