Jean-Francois Mezei@jfmezei@mstdn.ca
@heliomass@mstdn.ca The Repentigny , Mascouche and Terrebonne stations could be retasked for a new line on the Québec-Gatineau tracks to St-Martin Jct instead of using CN tracks to now nowhere, and then follow same route to Lucier l'Allier as the St-Jérome trains. EXo really lacks ambition. When REM pulled the rug from under their fee, they should have rerouted the Train de l'Est via Laval/St-Martin.
Of course, the urtimate is to not only extend the Vaudreuil line back to Rigaud but extend it to Trim so it connects to the Ottawa LRT to officoally make Ottawa a suburbn of Montréal as it should be 😉
You can take commuter trains from New Haven Connecticut all the way to Newark Delaware ( Metro North, NJ Transit, SEPTA) and just south of Newark DE, you can catch MARC trains to Washington DC and then VRE trains to Frederisksburg Virginia. All on public transit. So connecting EXO trains to Ottawa LRT isnt all that extraordinary !
Jean-Francois Mezei@jfmezei@mstdn.ca
@heliomass@mstdn.ca This would require some reconstructionn to reconnect the CSX (formely New York central) tracks from beauharnois to the CP rail tracks south of Mercier bridge, but would allow service from Luciel L'allier to Chateaugay, Beauharnois and Valleyfield.
The tracks connecting to CP south of Mercier bridge still gaev a very visible scar.
When CP bought Delaware and Hudson , it had its own tracks to USA and wasn't interested in doing business with CSX which was now a competitor.
