ADM to build over nature sanctuary
Aéroports de Montréal plans to build over some of the scarce remaining wild land on the island, known to be a bird and butterfly sanctuary.
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su 14:07 on 2025-03-15 Permalink
Sounds like the plan is to have the ballooning population of airline passengers replace threatened and endangered wildlife. “We reached about 9.5 billion passengers globally in 2024,” he said. “By 2030 that will be up to 12 billion. By 2042 we are estimating that the number of passengers travelling (by air) will double” to 19.5 billion per year.” !!
Kate 19:34 on 2025-03-15 Permalink
It’s almost as if a bigger airport should be constructed just outside of town to cope with the predicted increase in passengers…
Robert H 22:36 on 2025-03-15 Permalink
Yeah…somewhere off island…with plenty of open space and no adjacent suburbia to oppose it. That would be a huge success. There’s just no way it could possibly fail!
Kate 08:21 on 2025-03-16 Permalink
One of Mirabel’s failures was that it was premature. The population predictions for Montreal were huge and completely unrealistic for the time. We may be inching toward that population this century, and find we need a bigger airport not so close to where people (and animals, birds and bugs) need to live.
Robert H 11:10 on 2025-03-16 Permalink
True, Kate. My sarcasm was not aimed at the logic of your suggestion that a new airport is needed; Trudeau is approaching full capacity. It’s just frustrating to contemplate the planning and political incompetence that led to the situation that now exists: with three airports in the Montreal CMA of over 4.5 million, one could argue that the runways are already there and this remaining wilderness can be spared.
Why can’t Mirabel finally become what it was meant to be? Is it because of the expense of building transportation links that were never completed when it opened as common sense should have dictated? Or is it the human factor that prevents St. Hubert, AKA Aéroport métropolitain de Montréal, from expanding service even more than planned? That is, we all want to be able to fly cheaply to wherever we want and whenever, but we don’t want to live next to or near an airport.
CE 16:26 on 2025-03-16 Permalink
Mirabel tore down all the infrastructure needed for it to be a passenger airport over the last decade. It’s entirely set up to be a freight airport which is probably fine considering its location. The future is probably at YHU.
Ian 22:24 on 2025-03-17 Permalink
Considering Porter is already planning to fly out of YHU that’s a safe bet.
CE 22:55 on 2025-03-17 Permalink
With a good transit connection, YHU could be more convenient for many Montrealers than YUL. I’ve always thought the older parts of Longeueil have the density to support a couple yellow line stations with a terminus at the airport. One can dream.
Ian 08:27 on 2025-03-18 Permalink
It’s mostly CAQ territory out that way so it might be more politically expedient than trying to build lines in Montreal, you could be onto something there…
GC 10:15 on 2025-03-18 Permalink
It would be a bit closer for me, if there were decent transit options for getting there. Every time I go through Billy Bishop, I think how nice it would be to have something similar here. That is a pipe dream, of course.