Expo 17

Expo 17

In 2007, a new group, Expo 17, is looking to bring a smaller-scale – BIE sanctioned – exposition to Montreal for the 50th anniversary of Expo 67 and Canada's Sesquicentennial (2017). Expo 17 hopes a new World's Fair will regenerate the spirit of Canada's landmark centennial project. [ [http://www.expo17.ca/english/expo_proposal.pdf Expo_17_English_DBL_Final_Apr_b_2007.indd ] ]

An unofficial 50 second bid video for Expo 17 was created and posted on YouTube in December 2007. [http://youtube.com/watch?v=mcfAvGs5lr8] . Among some of the Expo 17 proposals include incorporating the park islands into a new all-encompassing public transit system that would help bring the park islands and the old city into a the downtown fold. Such a system would see most of the old city turned into a no-car zone in keeping with the overall environmental themes of the Expo. As such, with additional metro stops, new tram lines, bus lines and other possible mass-transit systems (such as the surface subway, minirail, gondola and ferry systems that were used in Expo 67 and other systems such as an elevated train or mag-lev monorail), the Expo sites would become directly linked to the downtown core to the north and west. Such a project would clearly improve the quality of life in Montreal, not to mention bring in massive quantities of new technologies and related industries. Part of the aim of Expo 17 is to revitalize key areas to the south and southeast of the core, areas currently within immediate connection to the key central business area and adjacent to the old city and old port areas, already the central tourist hub of the city. To see the Expo 17 proposal, please follow this link: [http://www.expo17.ca/english/expo_proposal.pdf] . Furthermore, the areas currently under consideration by the Expo 17 group have also recently been considered for the development of a new UN world headquarters [http://spacingmontreal.ca/?p=203] and a possible residential, commercial and cultural re-development of the Griffintown neighbourhood.

References

External Links

* [http://www.expo17.ca Expo 17 official website]


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