Plante, Bonnardel to take orange line
Mayor Plante is to take transport minister François Bonnardel and “ministre déléguée aux Transports et ministre responsable de la métropole” Chantal Rouleau for a rush-hour jaunt on the orange line Tuesday morning, responding to Plante’s pointed invitation back in February.
Security will surely see that the trio are not closely jostled by commuters, but maybe it will be instructive for them anyway to observe sardine class from the middle distance.
Tim S. 20:32 on 2019-05-20 Permalink
Also CEGEPs and Universities are done, so tens of thousands fewer students.
Kate 21:45 on 2019-05-20 Permalink
Yep. They should’ve gone at 8:15 a.m. on a February morning to get the full effect.
Faiz Imam 15:18 on 2019-05-21 Permalink
reading their comments post trip, nothing has changed.
They are not ignorant, they know exactly what the situation is.
CAQ has deep seated ideological views on their mobility priorities, and how they should be managed and paid for. The fact is that for them, congestion of this scale on the orange line is perfectly acceptable, and not worth bumping up above other projects they deem more politically expedient.
Good optics for everyone involved though.
Alex L 19:33 on 2019-05-21 Permalink
Apparently, the transport minister thinks the upcoming blue line extension and the REM will relieve the orange line. Some people really know their stuff.
Kate 21:13 on 2019-05-21 Permalink
Right. Bluntly, he’s not interested in making things better for the island of Montreal. The CAQ are basic unreconstructed pork barrel politicians and will build stuff for people they can be sure will vote for them again.
Bonnardel blew Plante off.
Ginger Baker 21:14 on 2019-05-21 Permalink
I may be wrong about this, but I thought the city wasn’t actually “allowed” to develop the Metro by itself.
Wasn’t there a moratorium instituted by Bourassa in the late 1980s?
Am I wrong here or does the city not actually have the legal right to go it alone?
Any experts able to shed some light on this one?