Turcot: worries about the pedestrian bridge
When the Turcot project was first floated, one of the few features people liked was a cycle and pedestrian bridge to link NDG and St-Henri. This disappeared from later recensions of the site, deleted as too expensive. The sketch is shown here a year ago when news came that the city was doing a feasibility study and the bridge idea seemed to be reviving. But now, community groups are afraid Quebec is letting the project drop again.
PO 11:14 on 2019-07-04 Permalink
I don’t know much about anything like this, but I’m confident this won’t happen, even if the right authorities go as far as funding it, because the rail company that owns the tracks beneath it will never agree to whatever inconvenience its construction might introduce. Any request will be tossed in the shredder the moment it reaches their office.
The only chance to make it happen was when the whole project was still being built, and the new rail lines weren’t being used yet. The equipment and construction infrastructure were there. Compared to whatever it would have cost to build it at the time, the cost will by necessity double or triple easily.
Or maybe that was part of the plan. It’s easier to hand out bigger and pricier contracts when you have big public support and PM fighting for it. Could be they killed it at the time because they knew the brown envelopes would be heftier if they saved the project for later.
ant6n 14:40 on 2019-07-05 Permalink
Bridges have been built over rail lines, it’s not impossible. I understand the issue near Dorval circle was that the province wanted to build pillars on railway land.