Côte-Vertu metro garage is a year behind
The underground metro garage at Côte-Vertu is a year behind in its construction and the consortium doing the work has presented no explanation or excuse. The article finds a tiny silver lining: there’s still a chance the extension of the orange line to Bois-Franc could be done while the excavation is active.
david103 18:43 on 2020-11-15 Permalink
That’s a very important silver lining, but there’s no indication at all that we have forward momentum on this file.
Personally, Plante should be banging the drum publicly, and constantly pestering the province and the feds, up to and including Trudeau himself, about this. She should also have a czar for this file, and she must get a bunch of nice splashy renderings out to the west and north side public before her reelection campaign begins.
Not only do would be we get a much faster west side connection to the REM, and connection to the west side from the west island, we get an entirely new metro station in a part of town that’s basically tabula rasa. This area could become an important Vancouver-style high density, transit-center oriented neighborhood, with connections both downtown, and to employment centers in NDG, Côte-des-Neiges/Côte-Saint Luc, and Westmount (including the new hospital complex). Great!