REM de l’Est taken away from CDPQ Infra
The planning and development of the REM de l’Est has been taken away from CDPQ Infra. Quebec has also decided not to build a branch through downtown.
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Jebediah Pallendrome 15:31 on 2022-05-02 Permalink
“No more elevated downtown REM!”
Hooray, you mean you’re going to tunnel instead?
“Nope, just going to hook it up to the Green Line.”
Won’t that add too many more passengers on an already over-burdened transit system?
“Let’s wait and see what the experts have to say…”
Weren’t they just fired?
“…it wasn’t my call”
Are you still going to build the Pink Line?
“This press conference is over!”
Faiz imam 18:04 on 2022-05-02 Permalink
On the one hand, it’s excellent that the governance of transit planning is coming back to the hands of local and regional government. With no regard for profit.
On the other hand, this will be blue line v2.
Im not expecting any further updates for years. Maybe this will get done in 20 years. But without proper government funding it’s really not happening at an accelerated pace.
mare 18:35 on 2022-05-02 Permalink
Can’t wait for another rail system, incompatible with everything else we already have, so users have to transfer to another system for almost everywhere they go, and maintenance and parts management will be as inefficient as possible.
I’m not a fan of the REM, but the East section being the same system as the ‘classic’ REM made it at least possible to connect them (somewhere, somehow, in some future) or move rolling stock to where it was needed.