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Kate 10:24 on 2020-11-19 Permalink Reply  

• steph 10:35 on 2020-11-19 Permalink

  Who owns/runs Aéroports de Montréal ? seems like they’re the ones putting the breaks on the build. Seems irresponsible to push the blame on Quebec for not fronting them a loan…
  And then I read “C’était l’une des conditions de départ de ce projet et c’est une condition essentielle à la vitalité économique de Montréal.” Who writes up these contracts that lets the parties involved do what ever they want without safeguards or punitive consequences for failure to abide? It’s construction corruption as usual aided and abided by the government.

• Bert 10:45 on 2020-11-19 Permalink

  https://www.admtl.com/en/adm/company

• Andrew 11:47 on 2020-11-19 Permalink

  The tunnel boring machine started working a month ago:
  https://www.westislandblog.com/alice-the-tunnel-boring-machine-of-the-rem-begins-her-great-journey/

  Supposedly at 1.7 M/hr it would currently be somewhere under the runways on the north side of the airport.

  So this sounds … insane

• Kate 12:19 on 2020-11-19 Permalink

  It smells like political leverage to me, but I wonder what the counterweight is.

• Raymond Lutz 12:51 on 2020-11-19 Permalink

  The boring stalled: I heard Alice was requisitioned as an extra on Villeneuve’s Dune set.

• Faiz Imam 14:13 on 2020-11-19 Permalink

  I wonder what the rationale is for Quebec to not give the loan?

  We know the airport is struggling due to covid, but it’s also pretty Clear that air travel will be back to full swing in the years ahead. A loan to cover the difference and allow that line to get done without delays seems obvious to me.

• david122 14:29 on 2020-11-19 Permalink

  As I mentioned, the rumor I heard is that this is a done deal – they’ll finish the boring, supposedly to Dorval circle, but they’re not going to build out the boxes for 2-3 years.

• Brett 14:31 on 2020-11-19 Permalink

  Because of the border closures (inside and outside Canada) as well the quarantine requirements upon return, make air travel basically out of the picture. As long as the federal government imposes these rules, the airport is going to be pin-drop quiet. It’s up to the feds to loosen restrictions and allow travel to resume which would put the airport in better financial health.

• Kate 15:46 on 2020-11-19 Permalink

  Brett, you make it sound like the federal government is “imposing these rules” arbitrarily. They’re not playing games for fun – we need controls until the pandemic is over.