REM tracks to go past bedroom windows
A reminder we’re building an old-style elevated train system: people in the West Island are unsettled by how close the tracks will run to their houses. “Le bureau du REM […] assure que l’intégration des trains à leur environnement fait partie des préoccupations.” Sure, I bet it’s preoccupying them like maybe ten minutes a week.
Mr.Chinaski 10:14 on 2019-07-15 Permalink
Their houses have already increased price by 25% minimum, and for the bungalows really near the stations, people will propose large amount of money so that they can buy and densify the lots. In the end, I can understand CDPQ Infra saying “Shut up and sleep on your money pot”
Chris 13:30 on 2019-07-15 Permalink
Money is not the only thing people care about.
Kate 15:53 on 2019-07-15 Permalink
Right. If you own a house chiefly as a place to live in, you don’t want a train going past your bedroom window every ten minutes. The fact you could turn the house over for a little more than you paid for it is cold comfort if you can’t sleep.
Josh 18:27 on 2019-07-15 Permalink
Is there any sense yet of how often the trains will run, and what times first and last departures will be? Will it be closer to metro-like frequency or AMT-like frequency?
Kevin 20:54 on 2019-07-15 Permalink
Josh
It was pitched as being every 2.5 to 15 minutes, 20 hours a day
Faiz Imam 00:00 on 2019-07-16 Permalink
Should be pointed out that the people in question have had heavy 200m long Deux Montagne trains going by their houses every 20-120 mins all day for decades. Those are heavy trains that cause a lot of vibration.
This same argument has been ongoing in TMR since day 1, and there as in here, the counter argument to frequency is that the new trains are shorter, lighter and quieter. They are also faster, so each disruption should take less time.
In the end, if it turns out the noise is unbearable, good news is that the vibration frequency profile of the new trains is much easier to build sound walls for than for the previous ones.
Chris 06:27 on 2019-07-16 Permalink
So, as with the bagel smoke complainers: there’s always been trains/smoke, now there’s more, but don’t complain, just move.
Mr.Chinaski 09:41 on 2019-07-16 Permalink
There *was* smoke, now there will be no more. They’ve exchanged air pollution with frequency. Josée Riopel has been actively against the REM from the start and it shows in every article of her.
Chris 13:58 on 2019-07-16 Permalink
There was smoke, then there was even more when they switched to 24 hour (they weren’t always). It’s pretty analagous to there being trains, then there being even more trains. Also like how the airport has always had flights, but ever more.