More on the second REM

I’ve begun to grit my teeth whenever I see the word revitalisation in articles and headlines, because what it almost always means is gentrification, as in Revitalisation de l’est de Montréal – a piece on how the REM will do just that to the eastern part of the island.

Thirty years planning the blue line, a Montreal solution to the problem of lacklustre public transit in the area, and now this. Has anyone even examined what impact this new REM will have on blue line progress?

Can anyone doubt that the REM is simply how Quebec is shaping the Montreal of the future?