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It would have taken maybe 6 months to replan the REM in a way which would have accommodated transportation priorities which had already been known since decades and should have been treated as base requirements.

The same people which laughed VIA out of the negotiations about tunnel access negotiations with the words „You don‘t have a project! Come back when you have a project…“ (CDPQ infra‘s CEO) now being truseted with that same project and with building a new $10+ billion tunnel only necessary because of their ignorance really adds a staggering anount of insult to a grave injury…

Pardon my ignorance, would those 6 months have allowed the relevant parties to leave passive provision for a wider Mont-Royal tunnel shared with future HSR? Without that provision, the only choice is to dig a completely separate tunnel, potentially using a TBM? That's unfortunate, but not unexpected given what appears to be a chronic lack of corridor safeguarding in Canadian infrastructure planning.