You were criticizing the service, and I gave you a reason why it is like that. I'm not defending it, I'm just giving some context so you can understand why things are what they are here.

The Mascouche line has been proven to be the result of an elaborate system of collusion and corruption between construction companies and the Charest government that lasted for about a decade between 2003 and 2011. Everyone now agrees that this issue has been solved, and I don't think we'll see...

It's due to open this fall, save for one important intersection (where they're building the tunnel to link with the blue line extension). They've started work on a 1.5km extension south to Notre-Dame (where it will connect with REM B). The problem with the Pie-IX BRT project is that it was...

REM East is supposed to have peak headway of 2-4 minutes.

Because a wikimedia image was used. See original here It doesn't have to be equal. Say you send 1/3 trains, it could work too. In fact, this is what is already done at peak on the orange line at Henri-Bourassa for trains heading to Laval. It's for a different reason but the effect is the same.

Here's an idea discussed on another forum: Why not build a grade separated wye between the two branches and create a third service from Montréal-Nord to Pointe-aux-Trembles: That way people from Pointe-aux-Trembles/Tétreaultville can reach both the green and blue line, both hospitals serving...

Parc Morgan is the continuity of Morgan Avenue, which was the main street of the city of Maisonneuve. The avenue, the park and most of the buildings on the avenue were built in the Beaux-Arts style at the beginning of the twentieth century. At the time Maisonneuve was a rich city (called the...

The community groups in Ville-Marie are working with CDPQi in order to integrate the line properly with the surroundings, especially between Berri and Papineau, including closing half the lanes along René-Lévesque and converting it to something greener.

The Pointe-aux-Trembles part of the right of way is being converted into a linear park called la Friche Ferroviaire. There's also housing being built at the eastern end of the old railway.

More info available in this article (in french only sorry): the agreement between CN and CDPQi is regarding sharing the ROW. It is still actively used by CN and will be even more used in a few years because a logistics company is moving close to the port to make room in the bassin Peel area...

Mercier-Ouest (also called Longue-Pointe) doesn't win anything, since nothing changes for them (Autoroute 25 is the eastern boundary, and the announcement today only concerns the portion east of A25). Tétreaultville (or Mercier-Est) was historically built along rue Hochelaga and rue Notre-Dame...

Good news for the Mercier-Est community! We are seeing progress everywhere along the line! In Ville-Marie a group of people were able to speak with CDPQi to voice their concerns, which is already a huge improvement compared to last year. I don't think there will be further sections in tunnel...

https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/quebec-city-tramway-project-delayed-by-a-year https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/future-quebec-levis-tunnel-would-have-no-exit-for-cars-in-downtown-quebec-city-1.5638667 There's plenty of news about it, I just did a quick google search.

They've spent most of the last 12 years talking about a potential LRT with a very vocal opposition that has the ear of the provincial government. Now that they had finally agreed on a route, a technology and the funding (including an 800M loan from the city of Montreal to speed up the project)...

I'm not sure how they calculate it, since I don't work for them. They sell train tickets though... they probably have lots and lots of data on city pairs, costs per km, costs per station, etc. It's not that difficult to create meaningful insights with that kind of data. Nowadays any ERP can do...

Typically you'd allocated using a prorated value like ridership and that would provide a strong basis for auditors. However, Via doesn't present segmented information by service in their audited financial statements. The annual report mentions it, but it's a grey zone from an accounting...

Being a CPA, I almost cried reading your post (in a good way) FP&A teams have access to pretty incredible data that would never make it's way in a publicly reported publication (such as an annual report) and they're pretty amazing at working with network planning. It's the same thing with...

Transit desert is a bit strong... All the areas served by REM East have lots of bus transit to metro stations. They certainly need improvement, but not at the cost of urban blight. From Saint-Alexandre to Robert-Bourassa it's going to be underground. East of that it's above ground, so Complexe...

It's not about ugliness or making it look nicer. It's about making it more and better integrated with the area it travels in. We just went through ten years of work to demolish the Bonaventure Expressway and replace it with something better because that infrastructure was poorly integrated with...

It's A-10. And I'm pretty happy most of the time even though I find the A-10 part not very good looking. From what I understand, constant criticism of REM East led directly to the announcement of parts of it going underground. Could it be that speaking up and criticizing various elements of a...