Don’t bury the REM: CDPQ Infra
The top honcho of CDPQ Infra, Jean-Marc Arbaud, says burying the REM would be a catastrophe, while the opposition asks nervously how much the government will have to pay in royalties if an extended REM is built.
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Daniel D 16:18 on 2021-02-19 Permalink
It’s odd they refuse to release the studies. Or is stating buildings would collapse just code for saying the added expense of tunnelling would reduce their profits?
I thought most projects like this avoided such risks by just tunnelling deeper underground.
ant6n 09:48 on 2021-02-20 Permalink
I feel like the REM infowars are starting up again. The odd PR presented as expertise, which many journalists take at face-value because it´s from “le bas de laine des Québécois” – even though it´s obvious the incentives are all screwed up if a pension fund is proposing a specific solution, paying for (some) of it and wanting to make a bunch of money with it. I enjoy the presentation showing that it is somehow impossible get a tunnel built under Rene-Levesque.
I bet the strongest alternative voice will come from a bunch of NIMBYs along the Notre-Dame corridor further out who don’t want an elevated train blocking their view of the industrial port.