Green line is down down down
Part of the green line is down – Lionel-Groulx to Frontenac – for an indefinite period and bus shuttles are running.
The Journal says cracks were seen in the tunnel between Berri‑UQAM and Saint‑Laurent stations.
CTV notes that heavy traffic has been diverted between Berri and St‑Laurent.
Joey 20:09 on 2023-04-24 Permalink
Good thing we’re taking care of the orange cones, though!
Kevin 20:30 on 2023-04-24 Permalink
The tunnel will be inspected more overnight.
So much for returning to the office…
Mozai 10:52 on 2023-04-25 Permalink
Didn’t we have a similar problem a few years ago? I think it was June 2020 under Place-des-Arts. I remember hearing the city didn’t have any blueprints for the underground construction, since they let private companies do their own thing and not file with city hall… private companies that didn’t file their plans or they just didn’t exist anymore, so the inspectors had no map while they were underground.
Kate 13:46 on 2023-04-25 Permalink
Mozai, the one I remember was back in 2007. Cracks were seen in a major slab of concrete behind the Bay store on the de Maisonneuve side, and this revealed that between the metro, the underground malls, the passageways, all the buried pipes and cables and other stuff, there was nobody overseeing the big picture of how all these dependencies interrelate.
I don’t know whether that’s changed in the intervening time, but I’d say odds are it hasn’t. They seem happy to let the lawyers and engineers argue it out after the fact.
…But maybe the fact of the REM going through there has made them sort out who’s responsible for what?