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Originally Posted by GreaterMontréal
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There's definitely nothing to brag about here... My greatest worry is that the Queen's U article cited doesn't even include the sprawl occuring
outside the statistical limits of the CMAs, which is often less controlled and even less dense.
In Montreal for example there are many towns growing fast along the Highway 15 corridor, in the north, between St-Jérôme and Ste-Adèle (Ste-Sophie, Prévost, Ste-Anne-des-Lacs, St-Sauveur, Morin Heights, Piedmont, St-Hippolyte, Ste-Adèle, St-Adolphe-d'Howard). All of them have commuting patterns increasingly directed towards Montreal (25 to 45%) and St-Jérôme (20 to 40%), and they are amongst the worst cases of sprawl in the country. If you combine the commuting rates, they're statistically suburbs of the CMA. C'est tentaculaire, it's part of the Montreal growth dynamic, and it's not taken into account. I wouldn't be surprised that Montreal would score way over the reported 84%, if all the sprawl generated by the city was taken into account.
Screen captures of typical developments, north of Montreal :
Sainte-Adèle :
Saint-Hippolyte
Sainte-Sophie
Saint-Sauveur & Morin Heights