SameGuy

And this is why I said a REM will do nothing to improve Taschereau. Des Sources, Fairview, Kirkland, and Anse REM stations will do nothing to actually “improve” the 40 or the areas around the stations. Sure, real estate promoters might eventually capitalize on the REM-A and build profitable TODs nearby (especially Cadillac Fairview in Pte-Claire and Broccolini/RioCan in Kirkland), but none of these will “improve” the surrounding neighbourhoods — or the busy highway that parallels the line.

Our GDP is healthy enough — among the largest in the world, and sharing the very highest echelon with regard to GDP/GNP “per capita” — that we in Canada, a modern social democracy, should be able to launch our own Build Back Better. The USA and Canada invested close to 40% of GDP in 1942 and beyond to “win” the Second World War and rebuild, not even a decade after the worst financial crisis in our collective histories, and created the biggest boom period ever lived.

Perhaps compared to New York, DC, or Boston, but nothing in Europe, Latin America, or Asia is in such desperate need of remediation.

It matches the rebar rust on the Sources interchange. No, honestly it looks better in person. Kubik is more attractive than 90% of similar-sized projects in Laval and on the South Shore.

60s for Kool, the rest is obvious. 😉

That’s fckn amazing.

Euhhm mais nos gratte-ciel le sont pour de vrai!

“Vertically challenged”

I can’t believe the Jersey barriers are still up since Occupy…

That’s one of the angles I was hoping to see! Merci @Rocco. Of course I don’t know the next time I’ll be strolling back from Gibbys… perhaps when Griffintown - Bernard-Landry station opens? 🤔

I don’t even try. 😜

Ça n’existe-tu une expression équivalente?? 😁

C’est incontournable, mais prenons comme exemple le tronçon longeant la 40 (plus ou moins), rien n’a été planifié pour embellir ou humaniser les environs de la ligne; pour l’avenir proche le REM dépendra à la refonte du réseau des bus, et plus tard des TOD autour de ses stations.

Sure. Three or four stations on the leg from Panama station to Longueuil Metro, which is about the same length as the Anse branch. Again, their business model is based on the per-km remittances from ARTM, not the one-time fees from developers.

The Anse branch stations are more than 2.3 km apart (Anse <2.3>Kirkland<4.4>Fairview<4.0>Sources). Let’s not pretend that the Caisse has any incentive to drop more stations along un(der)developed segments of Taschereau than that.

Comme d'habitude, vous avez réussi à l'exprimer mieux que mes tentatives à poings fermés. 😂

Exactly. A regional metro running high above the Taschereau stroad with stations every kilometre or two will do absolutely nothing to help revitalize the corridor. It will, however, get people from the hospital to the REM-A (assuming Infra actually bothers to connect them, unlike the REM-B proposal).

These dead horses have been beaten repeatedly in these forums over the years. La principale source de revenus de la Caisse provenant du REM-A — et l'on peut supposer des ententes similaires avec les futurs systèmes REM — est une remise de 72¢ par passager, par kilomètre, de l'ARTM. Bien qu'apparemment une société d'État, la Caisse est un investisseur institutionnel entièrement à but lucratif, au profit de ses déposants. Sa charte lui confère une totale indépendance vis-à-vis du gouvernement, et sa mission est claire: “La Caisse a pour mission de recevoir des sommes en dépôt conformément à la loi et de les gérer en recherchant le rendement optimal du capital de ses déposants dans le respect de leur politique de placement tout en contribuant au développement économique du Québec.”

CDPQi makes money per passenger-km; they have zero interest in building local transit for locals to ride three blocks. The further between stations, the better for them. Likewise, they would build their train to shuttle people from the south shore to downtown or the airport, not as part of some local urban boulevard renewal project.

Parce que le REM, par nature, n'est pas un TEC de proximité.

Tu viens de décrire exactement pourquoi le modèle REM est une idée terrible pour Taschereau. C'est soit une autoroute avec un métro aérien au milieu, soit c'est un boulevard urbain conçu pour renouveler le paysage à échelle humaine, mais ça ne peut pas être les deux.

You and the young (suspended) member seem to submit pictures from similar angles at about the same time, every time. Very iiiiinteresting…

Merci, Yara. 🙂

Lol ce sont les deux qui me viennent immédiatement à l'esprit.