SameGuy

The crux of the problem. An eventual private (or para-public) partner needs a guaranteed ROI, and spending a couple of billion for a few kilometres of tunnel just to have a transfer point at McGill or Gare Centrale will be the deciding factor. That's why I believe any future REM line will not be a branch to the north(east), and I'm doubtful it will intersect at either of the two underground downtown stations. In fact, I'd expect this possible eastern alignment to be a full heavy Metro before an expansion of REM. The notion of 21 stations on ~21 km as seen in the mistakenly-published maps at the infamous meeting is contrary to any "RER-style" system.

OMG awesome 😂😂

Hehehe

The exo line from DM to BF will close in three months, and not open again for at least three years, but BF station will be ready way before then. They could have started working on it after the closure and built it properly. This is half-assed.

La rouille? Le graffiti? If an abandoned industrial sector had a patrimoine to protect, Griffintown would have never been allowed to be built. But yes, that REM viaduct is awful, as bad as the CN but much taller.

LOL c'est ironique ou quoi? Le proprio du Fairmont Queen E est... la Caisse.

Thinking about it a little more, it’s a pity they didn’t plan for a central platform here. All the station cards for the Anse branch show an inflated travel time to the Airport, because “To get to [the Airport], you must transfer at Bois-Franc station from [Anse branch] station. We’ve added a conservative 10-minute connection time to our calculations.” In Singapore and other places where the airport is on a spur, there’s a central platform between the main trunk and the spur’s track and one just crosses the platform; often, the connecting train arrives within seconds and zero time is lost. 👎🏻

I mean, ils peuvent ré-électrifier entre A40/CdL et Sauvé, mais...

I’m out of upvotes cdm 😉

La distance entre la plateforme de BF et le boulevard Toupin est plus que les distances entre plusieurs stations! Canora-VdMR, McGill-GC-GFT, Île-Bigras-Ste-Dorothée... 😁 Aussi Wilfrid-Reid existe déjà, mais sans nom.

Interesting to note that in the implantation plan for Fairview, the extension of Avenue Hermitage is planned already. My guess is we will start seeing surveyors’ marks and excavation of this new CF/IC property fairly soon. https://rem.info/sites/default/files/Plans d'implantation 2020/PI_Station_Fairview Pointe-Claire_EN.pdf PI_Station_Fairview Pointe-Claire_EN.pdf

Seriously is this you??

LOL we are all speculating and daydreaming... it’s all good!

Plateforme centrale.

Excellent point. Mais au prix de tunnelage apparement la norme ici à Montréal, ce serait presqu’impossible. 🤪

Paysage? 🤔

Does it seem like a “canopy” is an afterthought? Lol

Encore, ils font quoi exactement, l’UPAC, pour $30M? It’s just one big den of thieves is what it is.

Link, my man! 😉

IMO René-Lévesque a beaucoup plus d’espace pour accommoder une structure aérienne, qui sera plus facile et moins dispendieux que n’importe quel tunnel.

Absolument d’accord à 100%.

Ça me semble vraiment être une structure aérienne entre Bois-de-Liesse et Pavillon.

Sugar Sammy, a-t-il vendu son château d’élite à IdS? 😂 Sérieux, n’y a pas trop de tours, mais une manque d’accès.

Since we are all playing along. 😉 Assumons que le REM2 croiserait le REM1 au niveau de la Gare Centrale, soit au dessus de RL soit par en dessous en empruntant de quelque façon la R136. De RL ça pourrait descendre au sousdivision Westmount à St-Marc, ou si c’est souterrain au CV, ça pourrait sortir quelque part entre LL et Atwater, avec un ou deux arrêts ajoutés sur le trajet Westmount (qui compte 8km entre LL et Westminster), peut-être à Atwater et Cavendish, en suite descendant vers VSP et l’emprise Victoria.