SameGuy

Listening to my français is like death by a thousand cuts.

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Not blaming the photographer, but jeezus is that one hideous panorama of a particularly unphotogenic part of the city.

Ok, let's make it simpler: if the average cost per km for REM(-A) ends up being $120M, do you think the cost for the 39 km segment from Mile 0.0 to Mile 24.3 of the CNoR Two Mountains sub is more than $120M/km, or less than $120M/km?

But it's still illogical. The actual REM will likely cost $8 billion by the time it opens, an average of $120 million per km. If we consider that more than half of it is at-grade on a preexisting alignment – essentially track replacement and electrification – we can surmise that the new sections and elevated guideway likely cost substantially more. Let's be generous and assign a cost of $250 million per km (though REM-B was initially estimated at $330 million per km for similar works); that's $3 billion to extend from Morgan to near Vaudreuil station... to serve what potential ridership?? Vaudreuil station already serves just 1500 riders a day. If we apply the theory of induced demand and suggest that a frequent, fast, metro will attract more riders, can we guess how many that might be? Would it be double (3000/day)? Would it be more than if we spent maybe one-third of that cost to instead modernize and electrify the entire exo11 Vaudreuil line, that would benefit (and attract riders from) a basin of more than half a million residents and workers? Yet one more time: a 12 km metro over fields and woods and a lake to serve a small exurb makes no sense.

Why are we still talking about sending metros across lightyears of farmers' fields, but not to Lachine, Côte-St-Luc, Vieux-Rosemont, or Montréal-Nord? 🤦🏻‍♂️

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>Luv>Kovalev>Kamasutra

Fair enough. Peut-être devrais-je reformuler: le parti qui promet de prendre en compte les besoins réels de cette province et de ses citoyens plutôt que de perdre du temps, d'effort et de l'argent à la construction d'un système d'apartheid linguistique et culturel... obtiendra mon vote.

The party that keeps the priorities of all citizens front and centre will get my vote, red or blues.

I was born here and raised here and have lived here 98% of my life, and if I have to vote based on some indecipherable party logo? Nobody's getting my vote. I have no idea what any of those are other than the red one being UK-style liberal (red is conservative everywhere else).

I was sitting here, but on the opposite end of the track, facing the tower (ie, behind the future Home Plate, 1st base side, about 15 rows up) for the Opening Ceremony and three days of the Track & Field competition.

Kewl and Rocky owe some of us an apology for their incessant naysaying.

But that's $1 billion just for the roof and its supporting structures! The rest of the stadium is a dark, dank, depressing relic from the 70s, and not at all like any modern stadium elsewhere in the world. As said above, even with a new roof, it still wouldn't rank in the top 75 stadiums on this continent. Aesthetically, from the outside, yes it's a work of art, and a symbol for the city. But let's not be deluded into believing that the stadium itself as a functional building is anything better than the actual mess that it is .

If the BTM was in charge, any time there was a surprise, all they'd have to do is call up Public Works, Bell, Hydro, or Gaz Met, and they'd keep going.

All along...

Like I said, they only had 7½ years since the announcement, and more than five since the work began... effing ridiculous.

What I'm saying is if enrolment goes down, McGill will have even less money for upkeep.

[cough]Tuition fee increase for non-Quebec students[/cough]

When yuppies are having a hard time getting approved at 8.84%, the millions of dollars a year you pay to lobbying firms for a dozen proposed projects starts to get a little bit expensive

I still want a hockey jersey

Ahuntsic > TMR

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