SameGuy

I guess they really are ahead of schedule: I just drove by LG-1 Anne at Kirkland station and it’s dark and deserted. Unlike the weeks leading to the Ste-Marie crossing when they worked around the clock, it seems for the station (which assembles somewhat differently than the regular spans), they are only working during the daytime. Most of the voussoirs of the first station span are hanging, but not assembled or glued.

Bravo!

To be fair, most freight now goes direct from the ramp out through Guérite Delta to the cargo facilities on Reverchon. Only a few big movers are on Stuart-Graham (Air France/KLM and Swissport). But yes, access from the north is simply bad.

I have brought this up numerous times over the years. The differences between the original, pre-2009 concept and the actual completed “project” are stark. How the bottom line tripled with only one-third of the initial design completed just defies comprehension.

Geez je n’avais même pas remarqué en uploadant le montant d’HDR que mon iPhone a appliquée aux images! Cibolo… 🤦🏻‍♂️

I had to go to Canadian Tire, just east of St-Charles, so I took a little detour west to go check in on Anne and see what she’s up to. The voussoirs for the second-from-last span before the Kirkland station columns are up and epoxied together, and crews are now preparing for the launching gantry to begin straddling the station columns. They are taller, because their saddles are the same height as installed voussoirs; the leading “legs” of the LG are designed for the lower columns and must be swapped out at each station for shorter “legs.” I went down into the dog run, and let me tell you that from there, the structure is friggin’ high! Here in the first picture one can see the workers readying the station column and the shorter legs. In this one, we presumably have a couple of different jobs going on. I watched some workers tensioning cables while others were bringing parts up top to complete the “leg” swap.

Lol didn’t see it ok ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is it just me? Or does the timeline keep slipping? Now it says the first phase will open “spring-summer 2022,” to du Ruisseau “fall 2023” instead of spring, while the section to Sunnybrooke is now spring 2024 and the DM and airport at the end of 2024. I’m pretty sure at the last update, Brossard to Centrale was only “spring 2022” and the second segment was late 2022 or early 2023. Before anybody says anything, I get that the rest of the phases depend upon the completion of the Mont-Royal tunnel.

I kind of dig that combined exo-“Site Glen”-Métro signage

Come for the view, stay for the Chef Helena’s great Portuguese food.

How many administrations have there been since Coderre? 😉

Every June rides could be free

Très bien élucidé. Merci.

Lol

Dans un forum tlm peut répondre. Des centaines de nouveaux problèmes ont été créés et continuent d'être créés par les fusions. La mairesse du Plateau ne devrait pas avoir un dernier mot autoritaire et incontestable dans le développement des banlieues dont elle n’a aucune compréhension.

I think so, yes. I imagine mitigation efforts will be part of the design, but who knows? The plan for REM-A just involves scrapers on the pantographs, and the frequent passage of trains during snowfall events (even overnight as necessary) to keep the guideways clear. I’d think that would be enough for the West Island, but not for any downtown sections running down the middle of a boulevard.

Elle n’était fusionnée que pendant quatre ans, du 1 janvier, 2002, au 31 décembre, 2005. Ça n’a rien à faire avec les fusions forcées.

Lol We’ve seen Rennes Ligne B before, it’s nice enough, but only a bit less blah that REM-A in the West Island. The WMATA one is a curious choice, as it is everything we don't want at the stations on R-L. Something like The Hague is the least likely. It combines a heavy, in-your-face style with a narrow-bodied tram line (and the guideway is thus significantly narrower than our REM’s will be). ETA: I just realized this isn’t the REM-B thread. Sorry for continuing the off-topic; mods, if you want to move my post please do so.

Honestly, if the starting point is the totally-serviceable-if-banal West Island segment, as long as officials (Infra, City, I don’t care) can keep it free of tags and street art, it’s not even that bad. It should be noted that not one of these sketches is at the correct height, accentuating the “heaviness” from ground level. The minimum clearance below will be 5 metres; these illustrations show it more like 3.5 metres (like parts of the Doney spur on either side of the 40). In all likelihood it will be quite a bit higher than the minimum, like the Tokyo Yurikamome line @Enalung showed us. If they make it more svelte and stylized, and with good up-lighting, it will be just fine.

Maybe, maybe not. It’s Benisti so…

It wouldn’t really be a spur or branch line though. Don’t get me wrong, I agree with @Né entre les rapides that it shouldn’t be extended to Vaudreuil at all — IMO it should have ended at Kirkland or inside the Baie-d’Urfé industrial park — which is why “branching” before Anse isn’t really a branch. I honestly don’t expect that station to get more than a few dozen passengers per day once the “grand opening” excitement wears off and folks from off-island get sick of the traffic on Ste-Marie to get there on an exo bus. It could continue to be used as the garage for the western branch. And yes, I think I’ve already noted the density discrepancies elsewhere. 😂

They own it.

Is PZ also levelling the 1925 Gazette building next door?

Then, idealistically, exo1 could run from LL to Baie-d’Urfé, perhaps even electrified, and the terminus would be a transfer station. The “maillage” of such a concept would add tremendous flexibility to transit in the west of the metropolis.