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Kate
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Kate
A tram for Lachine is still being envisaged but it wouldn’t go downtown, but terminate at Angrignon.
jeather
I understand not duplicating the green line, but now you’re at 3 modes to get downtown: bus to tram to metro. That’s a lot, and if it’s not actually well synchronized (and it won’t be, in practice), it’s not going to be all that well received.
Blork
I agree. It’s ok (good even) to build redundancy into transit.
DeWolf
I’m not sure most people will be taking a bus to the tram. Based on the routing, nearly everyone in Lachine will be within a 10 minute walk of the tramway. The route along Dollard and Newman in LaSalle also catches a fairly significant number of people within a short walk, and those corridors are also slated for high-density development so there will many more residents in the future. I would be surprised if the STM cancels the routes that already feed into Angrignon from parts of LaSalle that wouldn’t be accessible by tram.
That said I also agree that the ARTM saying they don’t want to double up the green line is a very bad excuse. They have no foresight – before the pandemic we were talking about the metro reaching its saturation point, and just because ridership is down post-Covid doesn’t mean it won’t once again reach capacity in the future. (Especially if the population keeps growing the way it has.) By then we will have wasted several opportunities to build redundancy.
What really would have been perfect was a metro extension, especially with the blue line extension already underway. One of the reasons transit projects here are so expensive is because they’re so infrequent we don’t have any cost efficiencies that come from continual expansions the way they’re doing it in Paris (or the way Spain is able to build so much transit so cheaply).
Uatu
They can deal with it like the rest of the south shore did when the rem was added to our commute. Bus to rem to metro is daily for me. And knowing artm they’ll route busses to the tram just so it gets used more and they can show how successful it is.
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Kate
Toula Drimonis interviewed the people who had been living in the building that collapsed in St‑Henri, describing the particular losses they face and including links where contributions can be made to help them.
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Kate
The Société de développement Angus has been chosen to build 1,001 new housing units in Montreal and Rimouski. In Montreal, 352 units will be built in Technopôle Angus and 325 more in Écoquartier Louvain in Ahuntsic.
Item on the Angus part of the project in Est Média Montréal.
DeWolf
This is great news even if 677 housing units is just a drop in the bucket of what’s needed. The Écoquartier Angus block where this will be located has turned out to be very nice. It’s mostly non-market housing, there’s a nice pedestrian corridor through the block and there’s already some good businesses including a brewery, a dépanneur focuses on local products and a coffee roaster. The early phases of Angus in the 1980s and 90s were planned with a suburban mindset but the Écoquartier section is making up for that.
Louvain also looks interesting and has the same potential to really scale up the surrounding part of Ahuntsic. There’s a thread about it on Agora:
https://forum.agoramtl.com/t/ecoquartier-louvain-est-projet-global/1770
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Kate
A man drowned off Verdun beach Friday and it took efforts by both police and firefighters to locate the body.
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