Airport charge for passengers to rise
Airports having taken a hard hit in the pandemic, they will be discouraging future travel by inflating the charge they’re allowed to add to ticket prices.
The construction of the REM spur to the airport is being put in doubt. On looking at the map included here, it strikes me that the spur branches off somewhat randomly. Shouldn’t it branch at a station?
Daniel 18:34 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
> The construction of the REM spur to the airport is being put in doubt.
This seems somewhat short-sighted. The airport has needed a decent transit link for decades, and at some point the demand to fly is certain to return.
> On looking at the map included here, it strikes me that the spur branches off somewhat randomly. Shouldn’t it branch at a station?
Don’t quote me on this, but I believe they’re reusing an existing or mothballed portion of CN / CP track to branch off towards Sainte-Anne, but the promotional diagram may not be geographically accurate, which I suppose is the point you were highlighting 🙂
Faiz imam 02:58 on 2020-06-19 Permalink
Kate, you are correct that the spur location is not ideal. It means west island residents/visitors will have to transfer at bois franc, which is a decent detour.
Unfortunately the location of the spit is in the middle of nowhere. No real value in building a station just to remove a few mins of transfer for certain users.
Kevin 10:20 on 2020-06-19 Permalink
Daniel,
Yeah, most of the West Island track is along the existing mothballed Doney Spur, which runs between Hymus and the T-Can.
It use to run west of St. John’s, but that portion was eliminated in the early 90s.
Daniel 12:01 on 2020-06-20 Permalink
Thanks Kevin, I figured someone here would have the details 🙂
For fun, I went down the proverbial rabbit hole and looked the spur up on the Canadian Rail Atlas (https://rac.jmaponline.net/canadianrailatlas/).
Unfortunately there’s no way to easily link directly to the portion of the map which is of interest, but it’s curious to see this spur not only stretches out along the REM route as far as Complexe Pointe-Claire, but there’s another branch which enters the Technoparc, going towards the airport. I find that make me think, asI understood the station in that location would be underground so I guess they may not be using the full alignment.