$10 billion to sort out airport access
By the latest estimate it will cost $10 billion to sort out access to the airport.
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bob 10:05 on 2025-07-16 Permalink
Not a single reporter will go into the institutionalized corruption involved in these projects.
Blork 11:43 on 2025-07-16 Permalink
And, as usual, if the estimate is $10B the final cost will be somewhere between $20B and $50B.
Robert H 15:18 on 2025-07-16 Permalink
What a frustrating mess. Part of the solution lies not at Trudeau itself but on the south shore. I agree completely with La Press columnist Stéphanie Grammond that it’s time to end the exclusivity clause that confines international flights to Trudeau. It would be to the benefit of the metropolitan region as a whole to send some of the traffic not only in the air but on the ground as well to MET (Saint-Hubert) to ease the pressure at YUL and literally create space for more passenger options and competition among airlines. Aéroports de Montréal’s monopoly on international flights seems more and more untenable in the face of passenger projections. $10 Billion is a head spinning amount to spend on access and infrastructure at one airport when another, even closer to the city centre, sits underutilized with the potential to expand.
Joey 16:03 on 2025-07-16 Permalink
$10B+ for airport expansion. $10B+ for the trosième lien. Meanwhile every summer there’s catastrophic rain and wildfire smoke, and outdoor skating is basically a thing of the past in the dead of winter.
Mark 19:09 on 2025-07-16 Permalink
How much would a highway and rail connection to Mirabel have cost in 1975? Because if you add up how much we spent on making Dorval functional we can clearly see that……ah forget it.