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Kate 13:41 on 2019-05-02 Permalink Reply  

• david100 21:32 on 2019-05-02 Permalink

  Interesting that in the account I read, I didn’t take away that the city would be borrowing this amount, as opposed to budget lining it.

  This is obviously a very good thing for the metro, which has been falling apart, in a lot of cases literally.

  A thing I think we can take away from this is that Montreal knows about REM integration, including fares, and has modeled demand sufficiently to spit out a number on needed cars, stations, etc. This is pretty interesting, and I guess they see an increase in passenger numbers coming.

  Like, with what we assume here, should mean integration/cost at the level to ensure a steady rise in metro ridership.

  So, now we need to go further: Trudeau should commit to fundimg the pink line, an orange line extension to the REM, the yellow line to McGill station, and the REM extension down into Dorval or at least the Dorval station. Would leave Montreal far below a major European or Chinese city in terms of rapid transit, obviously, but would create the sort of system that the city needs and deserves.

• Robert H 23:20 on 2019-05-02 Permalink

  N’oubliez pas la ligne bleu. On attend depuis des lustres. Je me demande si je vivrai assez longtemps…

• Kate 06:38 on 2019-05-03 Permalink

  david100, “donne l’autorisation à quatre règlements d’emprunt” in the lede. Maybe I don’t understand municipal financing?

  Robert H: it’s long past time for that blue line extension.

• david100 00:42 on 2019-05-04 Permalink

  No, I’m not saying they’re wrong about funding source, I’m saying that where I read about it the funding was a sort of second thought.