Eastern REM in several pieces
La Presse has a sheaf of stories about the east-end REM Wednesday: lots of uncertainties about its effects; will it be profitable? And while the mayor promises to hold back rampant gentrification around its route, Denis Coderre launches a possible comeback in blowing her off completely.
Jebediah Pallendrome 01:11 on 2020-12-17 Permalink
That’s funny I seem to recall Michael Sabia pitching the REM to premier Couillard who greenlit the project to fulfill a variety of unrealized commuter rail projects that had always been the responsibility of the province because Montreal is *legally prohibited from expanding mass transit*.