Blue line: will one station be deleted?
To save money, there’s talk of deleting one of the five planned stations from the blue line extension. This piece talks about how it might be Anjou. But the plans have talked for years about “extending the line to Anjou” so would that be cut short now?
Anjou station seems to have involved a lot of money and legal wrangling over the land for the terminus station and its parking lot, but who wants a blue line that stops at Langelier? Rolling Langelier and Lacordaire stations together would make more sense to me – but then, government decision-makers seldom follow the suggestions of this blog.
Ephraim 16:10 on 2021-05-15 Permalink
People forget that they want the stop to be at Belanger and Anjou. I wonder, could they save money buy using the old “Sears Garage” area in that corner and therefore it’s a straight shot down Jean-Talon, rather than tunnel under those buildings? Wonder if that would save much cash?
GC 07:30 on 2021-05-16 Permalink
Haven’t they already bought/appropriated all the land for the stations at surface level? Relocating one would just add to that bill, wouldn’t it? For that matter, what will they do with all that real estate if the line is cancelled?
Kate 10:31 on 2021-05-16 Permalink
I agree – it seems unlikely that changing plans at this stage would save money, and in fact might end up costing more.
GC 15:54 on 2021-05-16 Permalink
That should have said “expropriated”, of course! But you probably all figured that out.