Timothy

Well, they did apologize... "However, things took a turn for the worse. The train started to head in the opposite direction, back toward Brossard. The train pulled into the brightly lit garage, with parked trains all around them on the tracks. There was a third passenger on board with them, a tourist from Venezuela who didn't speak English or French, and the three of them were all equally confused. "You cannot open the door. There's no driver," Grégoire said. His wife found an intercom system on board and asked for help. After about eight minutes, Grégoire said the voice on the other end told them "the train was not responding" and to wait for it to take them back to the Brossard station. Once they arrived there, a REM employee was waiting for them with a company SUV, which finally drove them home. "They did apologize," he added."

That was definitely already a common enough expression way back in the 80s, 90s and still used today. It's not something people say every day but it's in the brain's lexicon vault for sure.

You just know it'll be fixed to meet minimum safety standards with about four feet of orange plastic fencing and some zip ties...

Un achalandage accru de wagons plus tôt cet aprês-midi à l'île des Soeurs. It looks like peak headway testing but I'm only guessing.

More winter testing this morning...

On s'assure de bien remettre le couvercle avant de déplacer son cooler chest...

... et encore ce matin

Tant qu'a moi Banff ne devrait pas figurer parmi les meilleures 'villes', oui c'est une superbe destination, non ce n'est pas une ville.

Bien pensé tes rampes, sauf ton raccord boul. Bouchard-A20 ouest ca ira pas loin, t'es mieux de viser sur ton traffic autoroutier. En ce qui concerne les limites d'hauteur, tes tracés sont (plus ou moins) plus éloignés de l'approche du 06R que le Fairfield Marriott, alors pourvu que tes viaducs et leurs lampadaires ne dépassent pas la hauteur du Marriott, j'imagine qu'on est correct.

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Excellent photos lma13, thanks!

Overhead wiring being installed this afternoon on the Brossard side of the bridge. It's almost invisible in the bright sun Image credit: pontsamueldechamplain.ca

Bien avant le Maestria, bien avant le Spectrum, du coté sud de Ste-Catherine se dressait... Le Club Montréal. Voici une photo prise lors d'une tournée au centre-ville il y a longtemps, 1981; désolé, dans ce temps le fait du soleil devant la lentille ca m'inquietait pas ben ben...

Et si on creusait un tunnel de (+ / -) René-Lévesque / Saint-Hubert pour ainsi rabattre sur la station Berri, d'ou la REM de l'est emprunterait l'axe du tunnel proposé pour l'extension de la ligne jaune vers McGill ? Certes, cela couterait cher en $%&!!* mais...

Parait que la construction du REM sur le tablier du pont s’achève peu a peu, et bien sur c'est grace à Denis...

... not sure why this disappeared, I had posted it about three weeks ago... Satellite views of mobile gantry 'Anne' outside the Brault and Martineau at St Charles Blvd, and 'Marie' on the Doney spur east of Avenue André. From their positions, and the state of greenery, I assume these images were captured this past April or early May, before the construction season resumed. Source: www.cumberlandgis.maps.arcgis.com

Tout a fait d'accord. Here's a photo I took 15 years ago of a similar setup in Beaconsfield, during reconstruction at the north end of the Westcroft pedestrian bridge. It was perfectly safe, though a little unnerving to walk on

The REM station's initial working name of 'Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue' was changed to 'Anse-à-l'Orme' to avoid confusion with the Vaudreuil-Hudson line station of the same name. Similar reasoning would apply to 'Baie-d'Urfé'. Similarly, REM 'Pointe-Claire' has been changed to 'Fairview Pointe-Claire'. I like 'Anse-à-l'Orme', another option would have been 'Sainte-Marie'.

C'est un reflet du Pont des Îles, construit il y a maintenant 54 ans pour relier les iles Ste-Hélène et Notre-Dame pour l'Expo 67.

Warning: Going on a tangent here... Yabucoa77's July 5th photos also depict the 40's quality pavement laid down in about 2007 if I'm not mistaken, in both directions between St-Charles to Sources and beyond. This roadway surface has stood the test of time and proves that good materials and workmanship yield quality results with minimal repairs. Yes, I know, at a price...

For those of us not driving by there all the time, the MTQ's 40/St-Charles camera now shows Anne slowly moving into view at the right-hand side:

etk qu'elle soit officiellement connue comme 'Griffintown - Bernard-Landry' ou pas, de jour en jour on finira par l'identifier tout simplement par 'Griffintown'. Car a part de la voix enregistrée qui annonce en toute douceur l'arrivée sur le quai, 'Griffintown - Bernard-Landry' c'est long à exprimer... Just my opinion.

I would suggest an homage to this beautiful century-old planned community, 'Ville Jardin" "Garden City"

Et pourtant certains des fiches techniques de la présentation du Comité de bon voisinage Canora / Mont-Royal indiquent 'Station VMR' ou 'VMR'.

En ce moment, oui, pourtant c'est la mise en valeur des terrains plus à l'ouest de l'avenue Fairview qui attire la CDPQ.