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SFO-YYZ
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Basically, the author wants REM-B to be turned into a "tram-train" - no idea what that actually means. Probably some version of Eglinton LRT with at grade crossings.
No way CDPQ is going with this approach.
p_xavier
Active Member
CDPQ president already told, it's the REM or nothing.
Also there's a big possibility of the blue line extension to lose a station. The project is in a major cost cutting process.
nfitz
Superstar
Who is telling CDPQ this? The provincial government?
DKsan
Active Member
....the author is wrong. That's not a tram-train. Tram-trains refer to the operation of light rail from streets onto (usually surface) railway right-of-ways off-street, usually alongside normal heavy rail operations. ION in KW has some tram-train operational elements, when it uses the Elmira spur between Uptown Waterloo and Northfield.
nfitz
Superstar
As does Toronto when the 501 uses the 2.5 km grade-separated right-of-way from Humber Loop to St. Josephs.
So the Toronto term for Tram-train is ... streetcar.
tsm1072
Active Member
I don't believe that is tram-train, it's just a dedicated ROW. It would be traim-train if the streetcar used the Lakeshore West rail corridor tracks along that route.As does Toronto when the 501 uses the 2.5 km grade-separated right-of-way from Humber Loop to St. Josephs.
So the Toronto term for Tram-train is ... streetcar.
robmausser
Senior Member
You are correct, to be classified a tram-train, it has to use currently active mainline rail, even if that activity is relegated to times when the tram train is not in operation.
Using an old abandoned line that was previously mainline rail MIGHT also apply, if the line is currently still connected to an active rail line. Maybe.
nfitz
Superstar
Yeah, I think you are correct, even though that ROW is alongside the GO track.
It's a horrid term for local usage though.
nephersir7
Active Member
Not Montreal, but here's the proposal for the Quebec-Levis tunnel, featuring mysterious underground BRT stations.
REC – Réseau express de la capitale
Le Réseau express de la Capitale (REC) incarne la vision gouvernementale du développement du transport collectif dans la région métropolitaine de Québec. - Une vision pour l'avenir.
www.rec.quebec
p_xavier
Active Member
Big Dig 2.021
NoahB
Active Member
Artwork program will be a combination of permanent installations and annual temporary ones made by university students.
www.newswire.ca
Réseau express métropolitain: a major investment in Québec public art
/CNW Telbec/ - M. Jean-Marc Arbaud, President and Chief Executive Officer of CDPQ Infra, Chantal Rouleau, ministre déléguée aux Transports et ministre...
www.newswire.ca
CharmAlarm
Active Member
Some Blue Line extension news:
Montreal's Blue line extension facing major cost overruns, putting project's future in doubt
CharmAlarm
Active Member
Later that same day, Quebec government changes its mind about dropping a station:
Controversy and reversal after talk of dropping station from blue-line metro plans
Controversy and reversal after talk of dropping station from blue-line metro plans
Public transit advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after an apparent reversal from the Quebec Transport Ministry, which had reportedly considered ditching plans for one station on the blue line metro extension.
montreal.ctvnews.ca
NoahB
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While it's unfortunate that the cost of expropriation has risen, would sitting on 1.2 billion worth of land be an opportunity to build things (or sell to developers who would) and make money off the land Hong Kong style?
I mean, if you buy land and build under it, you still have that land's air rights to sell/rent along with construction staging lands. The value doesn't just disappear.
I mean, if you buy land and build under it, you still have that land's air rights to sell/rent along with construction staging lands. The value doesn't just disappear.
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