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The Tampa Bay Rays are trying to get permission from their mayor to play part of their season in Montreal. The city has also just asked the REM to put two stations in the Peel Basin area.
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ant6n 20:43 on 2019-10-31 Permalink
Well, the REM had considered two stations between Gare Centrale and Nun’s Island: Peel Bassin and du Havre, kind of in the middle of nowhere. A station around Ottawa and Bridge/Wellington would make much more sense even if you just look at the population density and areal coverage the two stations would get (incidentally I had such a comparison map proposing exactly that change in my BAPE memoir). A station closer to Gare Centrale would take pressure off that station, and also provide good connections to the ‘multimedia’ city in the old port.
Faiz Imam 00:10 on 2019-11-01 Permalink
Yup, as I said about à month ago, the two stations have been an open secret for a couple of years now.
Cdpq was supposed to announce Peel station a year ago, but they keep delaying. Probably waiting for the Peel basin project to get nailed down (baseball stadium or not)
But the Ottawa station should open in a couple of years with the first phase. Should get a lot of use.
Speaking from a south shore perspective I’m surprised how many people hate the rem because they are used to their bus dropping them off at Nazereth to their jobs in towards old Montreal. This station should be very useful, especially for a lot of people that currently use square Victoria.
david100 12:26 on 2019-11-01 Permalink
A station at Ottawa street will be fantastic, and will also serve the faubourg des récollets. Just really hope that the integration with the metro is seamless – it would make Griffintown a one transfer ride from anywhere in the city (that’s connected to the metro). Pretty sweet.
ant6n 13:52 on 2019-11-01 Permalink
Well, the REM people did not care very much about short transfers – there’s a societal benefit for short transfers, which a private pension fund is not incentivized to capture. The Gare Centrale transfer will be pretty long, the McGill transfer will be fairly long. But it will be inside, so I people will put up with it, and certainly it’s less than walking from the Old port/Griffintown to the metro.