Well if putting in more bike lanes is "the great reset" then so be it.
As for the Montreal NDG area, I know it well having lived there for over a decade and I still have my dentist and a few friends in the area, so I'm there every now and again.
NDG is becoming a younger, prepier area. Lots of residents there already take public transit (good old bus #105) and bikes to work as downtown is but a short bike ride away. I did this myself while I worked at Steve's Music Store.
Don't put the traffic issues all on a couple kilometers of roadway, there's all sorts of issues there from the construction of the super hospital to the revamping of the Turcott interchange, to rerouting for the new Champlain Bridge. It's been a mess there for years before the lanes were taken away.
So, let's consider that this feared reset thing is environmentally based, why the big issue? We know that oil is a finite resource and will need to be replaced sooner or later. Might as well start sooner, being prepared (there's that word again) is after all, what it's all about right?
That being said, oil isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I have yet to see any viable research into electrified jumbo jets, freight ships, or railways. Let's not forget about all the plastic we so dearly love to type these posts with. Eventually, oil will only be available to commercial markets and the average Joe will need to find another source of energy to move around. This is not the will of some nefarious global organization, but a fact we are all going to have to deal with eventually, or perhaps at least our kids will.
Alberta is already running out of oil. Why else would they have resorted to stripping tar sands? It isn't the most economic way to produce black gold! The wells are starting to dry up. In fact, I've seen estimates that would indicate that I myself have a pretty good chance of living to see the end of the oil industry in Alberta, provided I make it into my nineties.
What I can't figure out is how all of this translates into government troops coming to seize your land, or eliminate your debts for a government issued paycheck.
The Illuminati have been on the brink of taking over the world for centuries now.
Planet X is going to crash into earth any day now for the past decade or so.
Too many preppers have gotten so wrapped up in this stuff. They spend so much money on rice and bullets that they don't have enough cash saved up for Timmies double double. This pandemic is a great example of that. One paycheck glitch and people are lining up at food banks and applying for government assistance. Oh I know, the YouTubers are convincing. The memes on Facebook that some consider news are exciting. All of this distracts us from what we should be doing. Preparing for the most likely scenarios before worrying about global takeovers by <insert favorite nefarious orgaization here>.

Potential Kruger warning for crown: the below is a mini review on what I have learnt or been part of in my professional life. All open source.

First and foremost, one must completely remove the personal, politics... out of things. Simply look at the fragmented pieces of the puzzle scattered on the table and instead of cheating and looking at the picture on the box, place those pieces of the puzzle on a level surface the best you can and see what may unfold. Perhaps one reaches a point and gives up on the puzzle but with luck there’s enough there to see it’s an image of a summer forest, an animal or a scene in the sky.

Let’s assume for a minute that there are various resets, dramatic changes... coming. Some will say this is simply the normal course of change etc, so let’s run with that. What does it mean to the “averagish” person wanting to be as self sufficient as possible?

Lets use gallowshumour example as a starter.

The little lines and traffic congestion: fine you are ok with biking or taking a stinking metro to work but with reduced car use, also comes reduced number of gas stations needed to tank up the cars.

Speed or reactionary time in an emergency can be critical. Law enforcement will depending on the situation shut down the major arteries and this will force you onto small side streets and boulevards and that will consume gas. Gas that is harder to obtain due to decades long reduction in gas stations. Cars stop working and add to the delays or finding yourself stuck and unable to move forward or back.

With few cars on the streets, the bridges and tunnels in Montréal will also see car lanes converted to bike paths and the bollards... put up will prevent a car from making use of the lane. So multiple choke points causing accidents and stalled vehicles. So with freedom to the cottage (out of the core or in the case of montreal, off the island) just a mile away, you are now stuck. PS, depending on the crisis, those bridges.. will be controlled by law enforcement and as we witnessed in Ottawa this spring, people were turned away and we still have that occurring in the Atlantic provinces.

We see smaller and smaller homes and apartments being built under the excuse of reducing carbon footprint, increase bang for buck / tax revenue for cities. This means less food and needed equipment storage space, one to maybe no vehicle parking spaces for the car or motor bike

You will see and it’s already an issue, neighbors ratting out other neighbors to the authorities. The communists used this to great effect. So you loading up your vehicle, your bringing in more then one tiny bag of groceries, your carrying a long object in a bag on weekends... WILL be noticed. (Note, break down that “long item” so it fits in a suitcase and avoid people panicking)

We are witnessing increased video surveillance, monitoring of telecommunications, internet chat rooms, ( this site is undoubtedly monitored, so say Hi) cell phone tracking, your Fitbit watch, social media being monitored under the guise to “ stamp out hate speech”.

We WILL see Increased taxes and while nothing new in that, one should expect it to increase under the already growing drive to “redistribute wealth”, equality, affordable housing, welcoming of “displaced persons”.....is going to be huge in 21,22,23...

What if covid were to grow in scale or any other calamity were to occur? We have seen the rationing of food at a store, but we all know we simply needed to go to another store/s and grab some more. What if you were only given a ration card like in WW2? Can we see this occurring in the future? I believe it to be very possible because in a post covid world, what could we reasonably expect to hear the UN and others clamoring for? Why yes, Increased immigration to relieve the stress on harder hit countries of course. We have seen it before covid with tiny wars, so I don’t think it’s a big leap to see the push to door in a year or two and with a likely influx of people will come a strain on food resources in western nations.

We already are and will increasingly see the rise of AI in all manner of industry and even in the service or professional sectors. What will, that likely mean? Reduced need for labour is what. You will see “make work projects” for some but we all know that is taxpayer funded. Learn coding they say! Ok, but coding is in great part already off-shored to folks working for pennies on the dollar so don’t expect every truck driver loosing a job to a computer driving a semi trailer, or a junior lawyer scanning a legal library for a case when a computer will do it in ten seconds or less. fewer hamburger flippers, lumberjacks, farmers driving tractors, warehouse workers needed to pick things off a shelf... heck there’s even robots being tested to install, tape and plaster gyprock!

So lots already occurring and much more on the horizon. Lots of great things or advancement in safety so in many cases, great things and highlighting these things should never be construed as being some grumpy old white mans issue but simply one of facing reality and dealing with it. Or trying too.

The only way to try and be free or independent is to be as far away from others as you can make it in your current or future lifestyle. Living in a city or burbs will see increased control over what you are permitted to do, reduced choices on food, be it from rationing or being so expensive that you can’t afford that nice cut of meat or fish, organic veggies will be out of the reach of the majority. Crime will most certainly increase, as will influence from organized crime. Government and corporate jobs will be harder to get and per history and current methods in other countries, bribes will increase and further reduce respect for authority, police will sadly also fall under the great temptations.

Those with a great deal of money will as they already do, live in areas highly policed and you will see an increased use of private security and while not armed they will act as a deter and force criminals into middle class and poorer areas. “Protection rackets”should also see a bump in growth.

Acts of terrorism, strikes, protests should also increase.

None of the above is unknown and not already been discussed.

Signed clarence AKA Kruger to some.

Here's a question for Clarence...
since traffic congestion is already an issue in urban areas, would it be better in your view for governments to expropriate citizens' land to expand streets and major arteries? Perhaps making an effort to reduce the number of cars on those roads in the first place would be a better course of action.

To demonstrate, I looked up the location of a dairy farm I worked on as a kid. A thriving multigenerational farm in Quebec. Now, it's just highway and roundabouts...acres of food producing land turned into concrete and asphalt. The farm wasn't the only thing expropriated either...a thriving Honda/Harley Davidson dealership was leveled. A successful furniture restoration company closed and gone. A farmers market that had opened just a couple years earlier and was just getting to be popular....gone and all the jobs those businesses supported, well out the window. However, yes, let's keep expanding roadways to make drivers happy.

Let's take that example and move it out of the small town setting and into a big urban area like Montreal. How many people need to lose their homes to road expansion? A freeway in Montreal (let's say highway 20 leading to downtown) being expanded just one lane in each direction would mean leveling a city block on each side for the length of that expansion. How would those homes being lost translate into the housing market? Let me take a guess that lower supply would NOT lead to lower housing costs...just an educated guess though.

What is most curious about this whole thing is that with all the rhetoric about land confiscation and a communist economy, the best examples some preppers can come up with is little lines painted on streets.

I can't even count how many times stuff like this has come up in the 10 years or so that I've been running this network. Niburu, Illuminati, Mayan calendar, Fukushima radiation, global crop failures, blah blah blah. Not one single bit of any of this rhetoric has come true. Why is this one any different. It all leads back to the same thing...follow the money. Well I followed it and the ones getting richer on all of this are the Youtubers and prepper businesses. "The world is about to end." (buy my underground bunkers). "global crop failures within 2 years!" (buy my freeze dried food). "They are putting chemicals in the water that are turning the frogs gay!" (buy my cure).

Now they're all yelling about this great reset. Trust me, they'll be selling you something soon enough.

I updated the below a bit with some more details: and at the bottom is part deux (2)

Well to answer your question, here’s what has been discussed in some rooms by very knowledgeable people who do know what is needed.

No need to further congest cities, in fact what we see possibly occurring these days with people and companies leaving cities was discussed as solutions and known reaction to easily forecast events dating back to 19 years ago at least! Cities need to stop expanding and fix what is there. Populations are tending to grow and if people wish to peddle around then they can stay and work in cities but the new building needs to be stopped and moved to a new location perhaps sixty miles up north in the laurentians/ Morin heights... where agriculture land will not be used yet has access to airport, highways... there a car, bike or cross country skis could be used for short trips and not congest tight roads.

Yes these issues we are facing are not new, all known in scope or points of failure decades ago! Sucks to be out of the loop but there you have it.

This little covid event is hitting us because we are crammed into tight living and work spaces. Work spaces where three or more thousands people will push elevator buttons Congested public transit, shopping, universities.... what has been known to reduce the impact of pandemics, reduction in impact of a terrorist attack, grid down, strikes, or any natural or manmade disaster is to have people dispersed to smaller cities and towns. To break up a company being in one or two towers in a city and having the Corp spit into two or more locations and placed on opposite coasts or in between. One of the issues that brought great laughter to a meeting was an exec saying the issue with splitting up a HQ is, who stays in the building with the president / no one wants to not be seen and able to kiss a$$ and loose out on being noticed and next promotion. Simple basic human frailties but they are real, prevent smart decisions and get us into the troubles we are all experiencing.

There is no need to confiscate land in cities, rather cities need to stop growing and maintain the good farming land that is left, surrounding them and hopefully able to help feed them. Like many an area in crumbling Detroit, some old sections need to be razed, heck some are even putting earth in and growing little city gardens.

Office campuses of one or two floors out in non agricultural land provide good security, good health for employees via trails that employees can walk safely on during lunch, controlled entry points stop vehicle borne bombs, people can walk, bike or drive short distance to work when not working from home, home and shopping parking lots offer lots of parking.

Since the advent of the fax, and even old video links, there is really no need for congested cities who we have all seen to be prone to a plethora of attacks incidents and the issues we are now seeing. Cities should have stopped growing in the mid to late eighties. No need for it.

Again, all very well known and very much discussed. One very well placed individual I met, was the VP of security for —— Corp and who was inside one of the twin towers when the planes hit, mentioned that the next attack on NYC would see people flee the towers / city and while covid was not a terrorist attack, it along with the BLM, 1% riots before it, now see it starting to occur. The same for most of the other cities.

Cities and vote greedy, control freaks....have created the disaster and they are trying hard to stop the hemorrhaging. We have seen cities being granted amalgamation powers and swallowing up perfectly good, debt free suburbs to provide money to the corrupt and bloated cities with all their la la land feel good projects and the push to have this continue will only increase in a post or ongoing covid crisis. For if the cities are broken up,the current political power structure collapses and the control it wields.

Of course no one is talking about the very things being gently mentioned prior to covid. Things like crumbling sewage and water infrastructure, crumbling bridges, roads, canal systems, ports, airports.... the cities and many surrounding burbs are in a terrible state of disrepair and they couldn’t find the money BC ( before covid) so to dream they can “find” it now is worthy of a trip on LSD and thinking you have seen the path to heaven.

So much more detail can be provided and it’s all based on actual informed professionals void of agendas and only seeking viable solutions to all the known threats that face a civilian population. Can be a pandemic, terrorists, organized crime, a flood from a poorly maintained hydro dam, ice storm, CNBR event,EMP event, food or medicine poisoning, an earthquake, ice storm, volcano eruption LNG plant explosion..... simple fact of the matter is we are living in very dense locations where diseases or other events have a massive and immediate reaction, have old infrastructure and no money to fix it in any meaningful or timely fashion, no real ability to move people or supplies in and out quickly, hospitals are at max capacity etc.

So stop the intensification, try and eventually fix what is existing but build and live in smarter and more self sufficient or easily served areas and reduce exposure to as many threats as possible.

For those wishing to get away from the mess, look to as remote a location your career, finances and family obligation permit or one can handle. Cities and burbs are on a number of fronts not healthy places to live or be stuck in when bad things happen.

Some will trot out the need for massive universities, but the truth is, they are broken into areas of education or expertise. So engineering does not need to be side medical, or philosophy....medicine and arts can stay at McGill in Montréal but engineering goes to lennoxville or mirabel.... oh but what about the diversity factor and arts and culture... it’s a well known fact that small university towns are much sought after by those wanting both “culture”, clean areas and space. Besides, get over having every form of cuisine and focus on actual health and safety. If one is that bent out of shape for some exotic dish, hop on a non polluting plane running on an elastic band. Me I prefer knowing that I am relatively safe and not stuck in a city on the 25th floor with millions of others wanting water, heat and food, or crammed into office towers breathing in recycled air.

Part Two; yes Denob, I also believe there is some truth to the panic porn solutions or fears that have some running around with a crows foot around thier neck to ward off this or that. Always some conman out there or a group with an agenda. Absolutely!

However, to dismiss very legitimate theories or as some love to lump under the rock of conspiracy theories, not so fast. Some claim I have some Kruger like disease so to avoid that, I will try and shorten my verbiage. Anyone who has a security clearance knows full well the beloved civilians out there who think they are informed are shall we say, not fully up to speed on a wide range of issues or details. Besides immediate operational necessities, many a classified event... is so that people do not panic, some or many are due to embarrassing current and past cluster f”s by officialdom, some are to avoid land speculation for those not already invited to the inside track. So some info is kept secure for legit national security reasons and some is to avoid panic....

Governments...will tell you it’s safe to eat or drink this or that but would they have their family feed or drink “ clean and treated water” coming from the waste treatment plant in Montréal... like they expect the peasants to drink? Try not to laugh to hard. Of course not.does anyone really be,wife the fish around Japan , California and BC are as free of nuclear waste as it was 70 years ago? Of course not. How bad is it, well I know I would never trust an entity with a vested interest in the fishery industry and related employment to tell me the truth. Just like I wouldn’t trust the tobacco industry to tell me the truth about smoke related cancer....

So before crown has a seizure, let me close with saying, a great deal of the troubles we face are self inflicted and are a result of us not being able to set aside prejudices about what we have been taught to believe or who to believe. The reason I am here on the board is to learn from others and if I can pass on some of the open source things I have learnt and put them into perspective then hopefully I have contributed to the discussion or topic of being prepared. Many “conspiracies” are indeed accurate, they simply are not known or understood yet. Listen to them, don’t immediately reject them because some paid suit in an industry or a paid talking head who draws their salary from the commercials of an industry poo poos it as Lunacy. Don’t have to accept them, just keep an open mind.

The Illuminati have been on the brink of taking over the world for centuries now.
Planet X is going to crash into earth any day now for the past decade or so.
Too many preppers have gotten so wrapped up in this stuff. They spend so much money on rice and bullets that they don't have enough cash saved up for Timmies double double. This pandemic is a great example of that. One paycheck glitch and people are lining up at food banks and applying for government assistance. Oh I know, the YouTubers are convincing. The memes on Facebook that some consider news are exciting. All of this distracts us from what we should be doing. Preparing for the most likely scenarios before worrying about global takeovers by <insert favorite nefarious orgaization here>.

I think if there is a post here in 2020 that speaks to me the most...this was it. Putting priorities in place for the most likely scenarios and preparing for that. Fiscal stewardship as a start is a great first defence to resilience and prepping.