[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: NYC and Montréal, Thunder Bay, Rouyn-Noranda, California City ...

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• Thanks to John for sharing me this review, by The Points Guy, of the apparently underwhelming Amtrak Adirondack track connecting New York City and Montréal. We deserve better.


• Sean Marshall shares, among other places at TVO, an account of the complex and roundabout grid of rail and bus routes he needed to take to get from Toronto to Thunder Bay.


• Graham Isador writes for CBC Arts about how the Québec mining town of Rouyn-Noranda became host to a major music festival.


• Wired reports on the deserted streets of California City, a metropolis proposed into existence in the mid-20th century that never took off.


• Can, as Bloomberg suggests, the property reforms that made it possible for people in Singapore to have secure homes be implemented in Hong Kong?