SameGuy

Nolo contendere. 🤷🏻‍♂️

What exactly am I missing here? Symphonia has the full rights to build a 42-storey tower, but the project was rejected by the borough council because of a small slope on the plan?

“disponibles” “If it’s not available (yet), it will be at some point (hopefully this year before your annual title expires).” Either way, I’m excited for those who’ll get to use REM-A regularly along that stretch starting at some point this “summer.” 👍🏼🤞🏼

Dans ta chaloupe??

Lol sure. But wouldn’t making it easier for riders to access your trains at 72¢ per passenger per kilometre be good spending?

Call it whatever you want, it’s still poor planning.

Correct. It’s not semantics. They’re connected with pedestrian tunnels, that’s all. Your version of “stretching” would define Laval and Longueuil as “Montreal” because they’re connected with bridges.

One more time for the folks in the cheap seats: “If you have to leave a station to get into another station, the networks are not integrated.” People on the Blue line will still change at the lousy JT transfer station than exit the EM station, walk walk walk, enter the other EM station, walk walk walk, take a 20-storey elevator, and walk walk walk to catch a REM downtown. Now, that said, if Blue line riders are trying to go to Le Lovers (or whatever), they’d probably prefer that ridiculous transfer to the quagmire that is (will be) Bonaventure to Centrale — unless CDPQi keeps the promise as quoted by @Boulderdash above and opens a direct connection at the south end of the REM platforms.

Lol riiiiiiiight

Merci d’avoir fouillé pour ces infos! See my comments above, I still think there’s no real integration being planned.

Merci pour cette perspicacité. 👍🏼

THIS. I am still incredulous that any real businessperson took any of this seriously. As a fan, it was a bad idea. As an investor, it was a dumb idea. As a politician with a city-province-country to protect and promote, it was an insane idea. Which brings us back to the premise that some in our group had surmised: it was all a ruse in order to warm the three above cohorts to the idea of a return of MLB, in advance of starting the ball rolling towards a likely relocation of a whole team — more than possibly the Rays.

Could just as easily be Pte-Claire, Kirkland, or Vaudreuil…

West Islander gon’ West Island ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nice shot, @Rocco. Thanks

Yessss! I’m not the pessimist my online persona exudes; I really really hope there are no more major snags.

Don’t forget the drains.

The fascinating combination of moisture and efflorescence on the concrete poured over a year ago (I don’t know how far ahead BPDL’s just-in-time system got with the voussoirs), in this deep-freeze, along with a fresh layer of reflective snow beneath makes the West Island branch appear especially white this winter.

Exactly. There’s a reason the Toyota Corolla is the best-selling car in the world, and it ain’t looks (or luxe).

Sydney has a milder climate than Vancouver, and chose the same turn-key overhead line system. It works.

Along with Dutchy’s Record Cave, the triumvirate of eccentric record stores. Sure, Sam’s was the biggest — remember people lining up on Boxing Day for a sale on… records? — but the former three were better, and Dutchy’s got most of my money as I sought the latest imports featured by Benoît Dufresne and Claude Rajotte on CHOM, and Augusta La Paix and Brent Bambury on CBC Stereo overnight. Good memories.

Lol GMTA

The Canada line really does more closely resemble the REM (or vice-versa?) than do the Expo or Millenium lines. Even the “guard rails” are molded into the concrete of the guideway like the West Island branch here.