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Posted by M.L. on Tue Sep 17 12:42:17 2013, in response to Montreal Blues, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Sep 11 01:08:24 2013. The Blue line (previously Line 5) is to Montreal what the G line is to NYC! ;-)Right at the beginning (circa 1970), Line 5 was planned as to serve two purposes: - add subway service to suburbs St-Leonard and Montreal-Nord (now boroughs of a larger Montreal); - link both branches of Line 2, north of mount Royal (and by doing so, serving dense areas and Montreal University). Planners studied the possibility of doing so with two different lines but they quickly decide to "merge" the two. Due to lack of funds and never-ending disputes between local and provincial governments and planning agencies, only a 12-stops segment between Saint-Michel (in the east) and Snowdon (in the west) was built. We are still (never ending) discussing a possible 5-stops extension eastward to Anjou borough. As for a line going north-east to Montreal-North, the idea was scrapped long time ago now in favor of a BRT but, guess what, we are still discussing the concept... |
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