Preliminary volume design for the Pie-IX station on the blue line extension. Looks like there will be redundant elevators between the mezzanine and the platforms. Missing from the picture on the right side is the tunnel that will lead to the BRT platforms and to the secondary entrance (on the...

The REM construction has no impact on existing VIA services.

The STM will launch the bidding process for platform screen doors in mid-2020. Prototype doors will be installed and tested at an undisclosed orange line station throughout 2021-2022. Afterwards, doors will be deployed to all the 30 other orange line stations between 2023 and 2026 The doors...

Here's a cross section plan from the 10 year old AMT study to build a commuter rail station under McGill College. (west is right). We can see that the underground parking of Place Montreal Trust extends under the street. There was enough space to add a third track to the west (A) , but that...

MTL-QC also has a bigger jump in speed than any other segment. QC-MTL: 35-42% faster MTL-OTT: 21% faster OTT-TO: 26% faster

It seems like the station design has evolved since these early renderings. Now it's side platforms instead of an island platform.

FWIW, here are the metro passenger demand numbers quoted in the REM ridership study. Looks like it needs to be multiplied by two to get the actual ridership figure. https://www.cdpqinfra.com/sites/default/files/pdf/summary_rem_forecasting_eng.pdf

Montreal is actually planning to make 15 more stations "fully accessible" by the end of 2021, for a total of 28/68 (or 32/73 if you count each line at each station separately): 2019: Bonaventure, Jean-Drapeau + Jean-Talon (Blue line platforms) 2020: Vendôme, Jolicœur, Angrignon, McGill + Berri...

If there's any outrage about noise, it's been drowned by the outrage about the train service getting suspended for years. But it's also possible, like you said, that people don't realize, or even can't get information about, what they're in for (It's not exactly being advertised.) The...

Entirely grade separated Here's the map: Orange = viaduct/bridge/overpass Blue = at grade/embankment Green = underground Deux-Montagnes Branch: Underpasses will be built so that Toupin St and Sunnybrooke St. can pass under the at-grade REM tracks. The REM will run elevated around...

Really, it's just a matter of having adequate platform length. Make it longer and don't call it light. The new Sydney Metro, which basically uses the same tech as Montreal's REM is designed for 40,000 pphpd capacity.

Also worthy of mention is the REM station at Trudeau Airport, which will be 35m underground.

I wouldn't say that things have been half-a$$ed, at least not by the STM. As far as accessibility is concerned, the STM has more of a tendency of over-engineering rather than half-a$$ing things. At Bonaventure, the STM installed elevators to the mezzanine in 2008-2009, expecting the AMT would...

Nope. Single island platform Nothing more detailed than this old diagram. Like with the other transfer stations, it's far from being a platform-to-platform transfer. The REM station mezzanine will be linked to the metro station mezzanine by a new pedestrian tunnel under De Maisonneuve...

Cars are ~20m long, with 3 doors each.(12 total)

Montreal/Quebec's regulatory environment definitely doesn't disincentives creating new rental stock. If anything, it's the opposite. Throughout the last two decades, there has consistently been more rentals built in the Greater Montreal Area compared to any other city in Canada, and possibly...

They went with CRRC for an order of 24 multilevel cars. They weren't looking for new locomotives as part of that contract.

Quebec City's LRT comes to mind. (36 light rail trains needed by 2026) Also, exo wants to get rid of ALL their locomotives (20 dual-mode ALP-45DPs, 10 F59PH, 11 F55PHI) to replace them with a cheaper to maintain standardized fleet. Some additional LRVs could also be required if the new CAQ...

I'm not so sure about that. On that stretch of the Bonaventure Expressway, the peak traffic volume was ~5000 vehicles/hour, and the through traffic continuing to the 720 ramp was around 1200 v/h That seems very similar the traffic figures of the Gardiner to DVP stretch. (5200v/h, including...

SIemens won the fleet renewal contract: https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/economie/transports/201811/27/01-5205716-contrat-de-1-milliard-avec-via-rail-siemens-a-double-bombardier.php The final terms are still being negociated. They're aiming for an official announcement by the end of the year...