Montréal Transit Developments

[drum118]

Chinese coaches enter service in Montréal​

 

[ARG1]

I guess that's one take on it.

Another is that it was sold as a means of getting a higher-order transit system up and running where one didn't exist but was needed, and didn't need the huge initial costs of a full-blown subway system. See San Diego, Buffalo, Calgary, Edmonton, etc.

Dan

Regardless, if all of these systems were to be built in Europe, they would be called trams or tram-trains. Only in the Anglosphere did people feel the necessity to invent a brand new term to name these systems.

 

[officedweller]

It has a face!

 

[NoahB]

Prolongement de la ligne bleue | Encore plus cher et encore plus en retard

N’achetez pas immédiatement votre billet pour la ligne bleue direction Anjou : le projet de prolongement du métro de Montréal sera plus long et plus coûteux que prévu, passant à près de 8 milliards de dollars, selon un document récemment soumis à Québec. Ce dernier prévoit aussi au moins un an...

www.lapresse.ca

Blue Line Extention's earliest opening date is now 2031.
Now expected to cost 7.6+ billion.
Only one company bid on the contract and is extracting concessions from the city.

The deadline to sign the core construction contract is July 30.

Montreal's transit-building renaissance seems to have been a mirage.

 

[ARG1]

Prolongement de la ligne bleue | Encore plus cher et encore plus en retard

N’achetez pas immédiatement votre billet pour la ligne bleue direction Anjou : le projet de prolongement du métro de Montréal sera plus long et plus coûteux que prévu, passant à près de 8 milliards de dollars, selon un document récemment soumis à Québec. Ce dernier prévoit aussi au moins un an...

www.lapresse.ca

Blue Line Extention's earliest opening date is now 2031.
Now expected to cost 7.6+ billion.
Only one company bid on the contract and is extracting concessions from the city.

The deadline to sign the core construction contract is July 30.

Montreal's transit-building renaissance seems to have been a mirage.

Its almost as if the renaissance was spearheaded by a single company, and now that they've been kicked out its back to status quo.

 

[NoahB]

Its almost as if the renaissance was spearheaded by a single company, and now that they've been kicked out its back to status quo.

Yes, by a crown corporation with a vision.

 

[reaperexpress]

Regardless, if all of these systems were to be built in Europe, they would be called trams or tram-trains. Only in the Anglosphere did people feel the necessity to invent a brand new term to name these systems.

The original modern light rail systems (Calgary, Edmonton, San Diego) are based on the German model of fast high-floor tram implemented in cities like Köln, Essen, Frankfurt, etc. Those systems are known in German as Stadtbahn, which is a brand new term they invented to name those systems.

 

[Dan416]

The original modern light rail systems (Calgary, Edmonton, San Diego) are based on the German model of fast high-floor tram implemented in cities like Köln, Essen, Frankfurt, etc. Those systems are known in German as Stadtbahn, which is a brand new term they invented to name those systems.

Personally I think it's a shame we don't have high floor LRTs, as it seems like those systems get proper stations built instead of the bare bones stops that Hurontario and Finch got.