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AMOS VILLAGE— DALQU I ER AND FIGUERY, TIMISCAMING COUNTY. 



Figures 23 and 24. — These figures illustrate two township plans in Quebec. Greenfield 

 Park in Figure 23 shows the grotesque length to which rectangular planning can go. Formerly 

 subdivided into small market garden holdings it is now being "planned" by each separate owner 

 with numerous cul-de-dacs, absurd variations in street widths, meaningless straight lines and 

 apparent disregard to the public convenience. Streets vary in width from 30 to 66 feet, the nar- 

 rowest streets being the most important thoroughfares. Edward Boulevard is not a highway 

 and at present there is no means of through communication in one direction across the town 

 for a length of one and a half miles. 



Amos Village goes to the opposite extreme in having too much road space and too 

 many main thoroughfares. It is characteristic of the more elaborately planned Quebec 

 townsite, made to fit in with the regulation provincial survey, without regard to 

 natural conditions. The streets vary in width from 70 feet to 100 feet, and in all cases there 

 are lanes 20 feet wide. Over 35 per cent of the land is taken up with road space, of which about 

 half would be adequate for traffic needs, if properly planned, and would be as much as the in- 

 habitants of the average town could afford to construct and maintain. 



See page 68. 



