Heliomass@heliomass@mstdn.ca
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“What If Every City Had a London Overground?” https://www.dwell.com/article/what-if-every-city-had-a-london-overground-ac7a7ff9
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Question for Montrealers: In a perfect world, what existing rail infrastructure around the city could be used to create useful and potentially popular new lines?
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Jean-Francois Mezei@jfmezei@mstdn.ca
@heliomass@mstdn.ca In terms of existing infrastructure, EXO/AMT has, to its credit, re-oppened many closed lines since the 1980s (and prevented loss of Rigaud and Deux Montagnes line, thouhh the later was lost in 2020).
It is more of a matter of getting decent frequencies on all of them, and perhaps extending the Candiac line to Farnham as it used to be when CP ran the service. (and even to Sherbrooke while we're at it).
EXO on CN line to Coteau du Lac serving Vaudreuil, Les Cèdres Coteau (with buses to Valleyfield or even get the train to back to Valleyfield after Coteau stop). The Vaudreuil to Coteau area has grown quite a bit in the last couple of decades.
Had they connected Mirabel airport to the nearby tracks for either CN or CP, we would still have the airport and could have done away with DOrval. Then again, the REM would have killed the service which needs the Deux Montagnes line.