>>1955370CDPQ (pension fund) and the quebec govt cannibalized an electrified commuter rail line with a ridership of 30k to create a new north-south light rail metro. its built in the style of west coast rapid transit like BART with suburban destinations, downtown trunk tunnel and wide station spacing. where the line branches off from the existing Deux-montagnes ROW, highway alignments are used. the airport branch is an extremely costly tunnel under the runways from the north, rather than the logical choice of a spur or people move from dorval station on the vaudreuil line. the the montreal metro is heavy rail and has the highest passenger-km in NA after the MTA and mexico city, the REM isn't another line of the montreal metro, it's not an s-bahn, which it should've been, montreal built a shitty low capacity RER with muh frequency (trains are packed at 8am, empty at noon) driverless (fuck workers) platform screendoor gadgetbahn whose contract was awarded to a mob outfit SNC lavalin, who also built the shitty scamplain bridge which was built to such poor standards it cant hold up a real train without collaping into the river so we have to put a tiny scam train like we are a fake city like ottawa.
