ARTM east-end tram plan called unrealistic
An American Italian transit expert says the ARTM’s proposed plan for an east‑end tram is too optimistic and too expensive.
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Nicholas 03:45 on 2024-09-05 Permalink
Marco is an Italian (from the Bologna area, not a Montreal Italian) who’s been a post doc fellow at McGill for a few years, so I’ll let you decide if he’s a Montrealer or not, but he’s not American. (He wears a few hats, working on that project at Marron Institute in NYC with people from Berlin and Turkey). He takes the 55 a lot. Maybe you’ve run into him, Kate, without even knowing!
Kate 08:18 on 2024-09-05 Permalink
My mistake. My eye fell on “Université de New York” and I jumped to a conclusion.
DeWolf 12:43 on 2024-09-05 Permalink
I found it odd that the article didn’t mention that Marco lives in Montreal and studied at UdM. It makes it sound like some foreign expert who is randomly interested in Montreal transit.
Nicholas 20:12 on 2024-09-05 Permalink
Of the transit experts I know of around the world (certainly not everyone), Marco is the only one I know of in Montreal, and he writes about Montreal all the time, and is known not just in the Montreal transportation community but in media and politics (Nie Desrochers from R-C, who’s interviewed him, asks him questions on Twitter every so often, and his threads get lots of attention from lots of local elected officials). I certainly don’t expect everyone to know he’s here, but it is weird that he did a report, in French, for Vivre en Ville, talking about very local stuff, and La Presse doesn’t note he’s a local.