It is necessary, in the interest of public safety and the growth of the economy of the entire region of our Capitale-Nationale, to have a third link connecting its two shores.
Quebec City is not spoiled. With important ministers around the cabinet table, the public thought the file was finally closed. Instead, the citizens of Quebec have just learned that it was once again botched.
Four and a half years after his election, Legault gives birth to a tunnel reserved for public transport instead of the promised multifunction link.
When it suits him and to help him get elected, François Legault poetically evokes our “second metropolis” when speaking of Quebec.
They are so “pragmatic”…
Wednesday, before the abandonment of most of the project, the caquists all repeated the same cassette to justify themselves: they are “pragmatic”, they say.
In fact, they are so pragmatic that instead of a “second metropolis”, they treat Quebec City like a village.
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They are so pragmatic, that they calculate that now that they have been re-elected on the basis of this promise, they can abandon it without consequences.
The idea of making public transit a priority is excellent. This would no doubt avoid bickering with the federal government for its share of funding for the major project. But why ban everything else?
How to justify that for the slightest delivery of a piece of machinery between a workshop in Beauport and Davie, we are always forced to type twenty kilometers, while it is just opposite.
The Quebec Bridge is over 100 years old, it is very rusty and we have no idea how long it will be able to stand.
The Pierre-Laporte bridge itself is over 50 years old. In recent years, it has experienced closures, complete or partial, to allow for major works. This illustrates the real need to have this famous third link.
A crazy idea
Think about it for a second. It is quite plausible that there will be closure and/or repairs on these two bridges at the same time. What do we do? The loop via the Laviolette bridge in Trois-Rivières? However, bad luck, this one is also in a state of repair. The La Fontaine bridge-tunnel in Montreal, then? Sorry, it’s under repair for years to come.
Let’s be serious, all that money, all that construction, all that drilling and all that disruption to get what through? A tramway? What are we doing at 3 a.m.? We make an interminable journey to take one of the bridges.
By the time this tunnel opens – if it ever does – it is very likely that heavy transport will have caught up with personal vehicles in terms of electrification.
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Why not allow the transition of vehicles to zero GHG emissions? Where is the problem?
We have a short memory…
This is a very good move for the opposition parties. But what is their proposal?
Conservative leader Duhaime suggests that we could take advantage of the construction of the new Île-d’Orléans bridge to continue towards the south shore. This involves landscape protection challenges, of course, but at least it’s an idea.
Politicians often rely on the fact that the memory of voters is very short. This is undoubtedly the calculation of François Legault for this unprecedented betrayal of the citizens of Quebec.
As Legault likes to say himself… WE WILL SEE!