nfitz
Superstar
Wow ... that's quite the operation.
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Montréal Transit Developments
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Streety McCarface
Senior Member
It still actually makes a lot of sense now that I think about it, because dealing with thermal expansion or sun kinks would severely affect service. This is likely a drop in the bucket for the railways.
Hopkins123
Senior Member
I don't think you've been following all the progress going on in Greater Montreal of late all that closely. Funding has been put forward:
Ottawa invests $2M to link REM with Dorval station
We wouldn't expect construction to start here prior to an EA process first, would we?
kEiThZ
Superstar
What EA? What you posted was a link for a feasibility study.
My broader question is why this station was never part of the original REM proposal to begin with.
nfitz
Superstar
Hopkins123
Senior Member
Which is a key first step in any pathway to construction regardless. Perhaps I should have been more clear. You said initially that no money's been invested, I showed you that within the past two weeks it's actually happening. Surely the EA is to follow should they find it feasible.
And it's probably likely that the two were not going to be linked together as part of a non-compete clause with the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter rail line. But that may no longer be the case now.
p_xavier
Active Member
BAPE-la documentation (DA-DB-DD) › Projet de réseau électrique métropolitain de transport collectif
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p_xavier
Active Member
No EAs are required for road extensions of less than a km, I wonder if it's applicable to rail as this extension is about 700m. In any case, the extension would be entirely on federal lands so no provincial EA would be required I assume.
Hopkins123
Senior Member
And now a subway from Cote Vertu to Bois Franc is coming up in the works:
mtltimes.ca
Extending the Metro Orange Line in Saint-Laurent - Mtltimes.ca
Extending the Metro Orange Line – The Mayor of the Borough of Saint-Laurent and spokesman for the Official Opposition on transportation matters, Mr. Alan DeSousa, today unveiled a motion asking the Quebec government to commit to extending the Metro’s orange line from the Côte-Vertu station to...
mtltimes.ca
nfitz
Superstar
Now?
How does that differ from the extension to Bois Franc discussed in the first post of this thread over 10 years ago?
Or the one that they were talking about in the 1980s?
Where are they planning on building the station? I can't picture how this would work, if it didn't go any under city streets, or the CP and CN tracks?
felix123
Active Member
I believe that the main difference is that the côte-vertu metro garage has since begun construction, meaning, per the article that 1.2km of the 2.2km tunneling needed is already complete.
Not a sure thing but a step in the right direction at least.
smallspy
Senior Member
That's not true at all. The garage is being built on a totally different alignment than the extension to Bois-Franc.
Dan
nfitz
Superstar
Construction underway - oh - is that why terminal operations at Cote-Vertu are so bizarre? When I was there a couple of months ago, the trains were all changing tracks, south of the station, which seemed a potential bottleneck to me (the in-service train arrived from the south on the northbound tracks, but then departed empty heading southbound, changed tracks, and then went northbound again (still out of service) to arrive on the southbound platform!)
I just assumed they'd been doing that since the 1980s - but perhaps not?
I just assumed they'd been doing that since the 1980s - but perhaps not?
smallspy
Senior Member
That is due to the construction - one of the tailtracks is partially out of service due to constructing the tie-in to the existing line. From what I recall during peak hours they are still operating as per normal - changing tracks to the north of the station - but off-peak, they are operating as you saw as they need as much storage capacity as possible.
http://www.stm.info/en/about/major_projects/cote-vertu-garage
Dan
Hopkins123
Senior Member
Yes, exactly. The trackage already extends long enough for there to be a Poirier Station if they so choose to want to build it.