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Kate 19:02 on 2021-03-19 Permalink Reply  

• ant6n 06:55 on 2021-03-20 Permalink

  So REM kills Pink Line and Blue Line extension. Isn´t it odd how Legault, who doesn´t seem to care much about cities, apparently is the #1 transit expert of the province, apparently drawing lines on a map deciding what our metro system will look like for the next 50 years.

• qatzelok 08:12 on 2021-03-20 Permalink

  An old political hack who was brought into the political limelight (by big money) to save the car industry and to sell previously public infrastructure to private interests.Like so many others.

• Kevin 11:03 on 2021-03-20 Permalink

  I think it’s more a case of no true Quebecer lives in Montreal.

• PO 11:27 on 2021-03-20 Permalink

  If that’s the case, then I want the CAQ and every individual in an elected leadership position within the party to sum up down to the dollar the cost of every single prefeasibility and feasibility report, study and commission that ever went into the blue line extension in the last 20 years. Then all of them personally reimburse the province and city that paid for those.

  There has to be, at this point, hundreds of millions of dollars spent on this blue line extension already. Every new bullshit elected party ends up dishing out millions for a new and updated feasibility study, then sits on it and does nothing, and then the next crew of rats does the same thing. The CAQ takes it a step further now and just cans it all because they sold our public infrastructure to a private corporation.

  We Quebecers spend a decade having the Charbonneau commission tell us we’re being controlled by thieves, but we continue to let ourselves be at the hands of thieves.

• Ant6n 16:36 on 2021-03-20 Permalink

  To be fair, the current planning for the blue line makes the project the most expensive subway in Canada per km, she about 2-3x the cost you’d find in Europe.

  (I think it’s about the same cost per rider as the rem2, but the dinky elevated mini metro will at least bring its small clientele directly downtown)

• qatzelok 08:57 on 2021-03-21 Permalink

  Ant6n, this may be true. But when will people in Quebec get to hear an honest explanation for why all our construction projects cost much more than they should. This is an extremely important handicap that makes us uncompetitive and our infrastructure irrational and out-dated.

  It makes Quebecois look like we are prime targets for racketeering by backroom “old boy” politics and financial predators. Eternal suckers for skimming of infra money.