The real problem with REM de l'Est is really that it doesn't integrate with any of the mass transit network downtown, not even the original REM. It simply doesn't make sense... It also doesn't serve any underserved areas until it reaches the end of the Green or the Blue metro lines, which is the...

ironically the entire Montreal-North section will be underground. No luck for the downtown part.

It's an amazing piece of infrastructure. Not only for the benefits to cyclists but also for how it made the street much nicer to walk along. I used it for the first time on my bike last week to go to Marché Jean-Talon (I live right next to Berri-UQAM), what a great, easy ride it was. I believe...

Clearly Projet Montréal is trying to avoid the media firestorm they had to endure last year during construction of the REV on Bellechasse and Saint-Denis, who could blame them...

It's a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. She was criticized by the press for the amount of road works, even though she clearly stated in 2018 that she was doubling the amount of work done because of the maintenance deficit carried over from past administrations. Coderre wanted to do...

It's not from La Presse, it's an open letter by some board of trades representatives in the opinion section of the paper.

In 2016, the population of the lakeshore urban areas (Coteau to Oshawa) served by Via was 850,612 people, with almost half of it in Oshawa alone. By comparison, Ottawa and Peterborough together had a population of more than 1.4 million. Those communities obviously deserve to be served by Via...

There definitely is room for improvement on the RL bike path. When REM B was first announced I actually thought it would be a great idea to close off the southern half of RB and make it a greenway/bike path/REM aerial line. The problem with an aerial structure is west of Saint-Denis, where the...

Same, I usually take a train and stay overnight in Toronto before taking a train back. I can still work on the train and it's usually about the same price as an uber to YUL and a flight to YTZ. Plus my employer allows me to book business on Via.

That's it! The Corridor doesn't need 350km/h service. All it needs is enough speed to compete with planes and cars, a reliable schedule and proper connections with transit, YUL and YYZ. Just with that VIA would be in a strong position to win corporate contracts, which is truly where the money is.

Yes, that's right. There is only De Maisonneuve right now that provides a protected east-west bike ride across downtown right now. The bike path on René-Lévesque ends at Berri street. There are two current projects for east-west paths downtown: 1. The REV (Réseau Express Vélo/Express Bike...

In one of the original designs for the light rail line, they proposed cutting the southern half of René-Lévesque boulevard and converting it to green space, bike lanes and the light rail. The provincial transportation ministry opposed it because of the significance of the boulevard for car...

There's nothing wrong with CDPQ profiting from development. That's how Madrid was able to fund it's transit system so successfully. What's problematic, in my view, is that for the sake of said development we're going to build without proper needs study, running along a metro line and not provide...

This is my point exactly. La Caisse doesn't have to be involved in all development projects, and their solution to everything should certainly not be a light metro. Different needs require differents modes of transportation. The point I was making just illustrated what we could do with 5 billion...

You're right... I forgot the part where REM has to run where there is empty land so la Caisse can profit off of development! Seriously... CAQ is doing the same thing in Quebec City, where they're litterally sabotaging the tram network for political gain. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's what...

Getting off a train, going outside, walking 200m to reach the entrance of a metro station and walking another 100m inside to another train is not what I call an optimal transfer. Spadina sounds like a pleasant walk compared to that. Same goes for transferring at Robert-Bourassa (where at least...

The problem is also that they don't plan on providing good connections to any other transit line downtown (transferring at Berri involves walking 200m outside, there won't be a direct link to REM A at Robert-Bourassa), so it's basically a people mover for some east end residents (who already...

I totally agree with you. We need an actual publicly owned system that links smaller regional nodes to bigger centres and train service. I'm sure such a system would build traffic to warrant more regional focused train lines in the future.

If CNR was still a crown corporation maybe things would be different today. No?

We won't see another metro extension in the CAQ's lifetime that's for sure.