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July 29, 2010

July 29, 2010

July 29, 2010

July 29, 2010

July 29, 2010

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July 29, 2010

July 26

It would be nice to see the Blue line extended west into NDG up to the Concordia campus!

I don't understand what the thing in the middle is??

Ouch. Sucks for the people who are from there that take it. Guess they are stuck driving onto the island and getting on somewhere in the west island.

There were only 10 people per day using it

Train makes its last stop in Rigaud

 

Bus service to begin on Friday Service that has been running since 1889 to make its last run from old Rigaud station

 

BY ALYCIA AMBROZIAK, THE GAZETTE JUNE 30, 2010

 

 

A more than century-old service will end today, when the train to Rigaud makes its last run.

 

"The train has been running without interruption since 1889. But the last train to Rigaud will not leave commuters stranded," said Manon Charest, director general at the Conseil Intermunicipal de Transport La Presqu'Ile (CIT la Presqu'Ile), which provides bus service to Hudson, Vaudreuil-Dorion, Pincourt, Ile Perrot and Notre Dame de l'Ile Perrot, and beginning Friday, to Rigaud.

 

The CIT la Presqu'Ile buses ferry passengers to the Vaudreuil train station, a hub that is served by 25 trains on weekdays.

 

Beginning Friday, the CIT la Presqu'Ile will provide a new twice-daily weekday bus service taking passengers from Rigaud to the Vaudreuil train station.

 

The bus service will leave Rigaud every weekday morning at 6:12 and 7:02 a.m. and stop at five stops along Highway 342, commonly known as Harwood Blvd., on the way to the Vaudreuil train station. Afternoons, the bus will leave the Vaudreuil station for Rigaud at 5:25 and 6:41 p.m.

 

A similar CIT bus service is scheduled to begin in St. Lazare in September.

 

Rigaud town manager Chantal Lemieux said the handful of residents who were commuting by train will be better off with the buses.

 

"There will be more service available to our residents, as we only had one train departure in the morning and one arrival in the evening," Lemieux said Monday. "Now, we will have two departures in the morning and two at the end of the day."

 

Train service to Rigaud, 60 kilo-metres west of downtown Montreal, was cancelled after the town of Rigaud announced it could not afford to pay about $300,000 annually -up from $160,000 -that the Agence metropolitaine de transport (AMT), Montreal's regional public transit authority, was demanding to keep the service alive.

 

Hudson will be the new terminus for what was known as the Dorion/ Rigaud line, a service heavily used by West Island commuters.

 

In an earlier interview, Lemieux said the town of Rigaud does not know what will happen to the train tracks in Rigaud.

 

"There had been talk of making it into a bicycle path, but it is not our property," she said. "It belongs to CP Rail. And I don't think they'll be dismantling the tracks any time soon."

 

For more information on the new bus schedule to Rigaud, go to http://www.ville.rigaud.qc.caor the CIT's website at http://www.citlapresquile.qc.ca

 

© Copyright © The Montreal Gazette

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/todays-paper/Train+makes+last+stop+Rigaud/3218761/story.html

Tant mieux.

This is why Montreal is not the city it should be today!

Via rail has suspended service

I was in a study room at the JMSB on the 2nd basement floor and I felt the floor shaking

What a change!!!

The Guy Metro building looks awful in that picture. Any word of the status of the plans to reclad it to match the new buildings?

I think they will start this summer.

Royal Vic are to become condos I thinks

we already have a Adidas store. A Nike Town and the 1st Uniqlo in Canada would be amazing. But there really aren't any free spaces along st-catherine unless we started kicking out the lower end "independent" shops.

On the same block were the new XXI store will be, there used to be a golf town which was pretty big, that would be the perfect location for a Nike store.

Were there 9 wagons per train or just 6?

9 and there were trains were every 3-4 mins

I was working at the Piknic just next to it. Let's just say we heard the race very well, and we could see people massively leaving the place until the very end of the afternoon.

 

Apparently, it indeed was crazy in the metro.

Rush hour + F1 people

I had to wait like six trains at berri

Metro was crazy on friday!!

This is really going to suck for the people living in the building behind LOL. They lose their view. I'd be very mad.

Will there be a crane for this and the 2-22?

Pourquoi ??? :confused:

Its ugly as hell.

Some times i wish every building in that area looked like the Concordia ones

very nice all thats missing to for that UQAM building to get a facelift.

Well now that were here, I might as well ask. Will they ever repair the blue tiles at de la Concorde station?

This is going to be good for the Metro's blue line Acadie is on of the least used stations.

Plus UDM station is on the same line.