Towns and city at REM’s disposal
Montreal and surrounding towns have been given a mere ten days to pose questions to CDPQ Infra, the Caisse branch building the REM. And they have no power to insist on changes in its plans.
Who gave CDPQ Infra this power?
Steve Q 22:58 on 2019-03-26 Permalink
I’m glad they have this power, otherwise we would still be discussing and analysing and studying etc… nothing would get done. We are beyond all these never ending discussions about transit. It’s time for action.
Kate 07:00 on 2019-03-27 Permalink
Governance by diktat. It works in a lot of places. It makes a lot of people feel safe.
I’m not one of them.
ant6n 20:16 on 2019-03-27 Permalink
I find arguments like “if we planned things properly, nothing would ever get done” weird. If we had proper long term planning on transit, and a decent pipeline of projects that integrate with each other and urban planning, then we could still accomplish good things at a decent rate.
Or another way of thinking about it: a bunch of the transit/rail geeks have been complaining about the same issues form day one. With proper expertise, even a quickly planned project could’ve been done better.