Nine Montreal metro stations and certain tunnels are considered in “poor condition,” according to a government document made public in the National Assembly on Wednesday.
This information appears in the annual management plan for public investments in infrastructure, dated December 2023. The document does not specify which stations or which tunnels are involved. It stipulates that 13% of the 68 stations (i.e. 9) and 2% of the tunnels obtain a rating of “D” and “E”, which means that they are in “poor condition”. This is also the case for 55 auxiliary structures of the network.
On Wednesday, Liberal MP Monsef Derraji took advantage of the study of the Ministry of Transport’s appropriations to question Minister Geneviève Guilbault on this subject. He asked her if she knew what tunnels and stations they were.
The minister replied to ask the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), where the data in question comes from anyway. “The metro is under the responsibility of the STM, which has its experts and its teams, and we rely on them,” she said. Mme Guilbault nevertheless maintained that the “government will never let people move around in unsafe infrastructure.”
The duty submitted MP Derraji’s questions to the STM. The latter refused to answer. “We are going to stick to what is in the PAGI”, the Annual Investment Management Plan, indicated its spokesperson Amélie Régis.
The Montreal metro was built 55 years ago. It is used by around 900,000 people per day.
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