The REV will connect to the REM in the West Island of Montreal, thanks to the construction of a footbridge for pedestrians and cyclists that will cross Highway 40 at the height of the future Kirkland station.
Posted yesterday at 11:33 p.m.
The executive committee of the City of Montreal will grant a $4.4 million contract to the firm GHD Consultants on Wednesday morning to design this footbridge.
This contract also concerns the design and development of a new lane reserved for buses, bordered by a multipurpose lane, towards the Kirkland station of the Réseau express métropolitain (REM), in the right-of-way of Highway 440, which will ultimately never be extended.
The footbridge, which will be a segment of the Express Bike Network (REV) planned in the west of the island, will also facilitate access to the future Grand Parc de l’Ouest, which is scheduled to open in 2030, underlines Sophie Mauzerolle, responsible for transport and mobility on the executive committee.
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The footbridge, which will be a segment of the Express Bike Network (REV) planned in the west of the island, will also facilitate access to the future Grand Parc de l’Ouest, which is scheduled to open in 2030.
“This gateway will be a signature link that will open up a sector that is difficult to access,” said Ms.me Mauzerolle on Tuesday, in an interview.
However, it will be necessary to wait until 2027 before being able to use this link.
However, the lane reserved for buses will be ready for 2024, when the REM de l’Ouest comes into service. The Kirkland REM station will include a bus terminus, a drop-off area, an area for taxis and bike racks.
Since the end of the 1970s, the Ministère des Transports du Québec has owned land that was to be used for the extension of Highway 440 in the west of the island of Montreal, to Highway 40. As this project was abandoned , it is these lands that will be used for the construction of the lane reserved for buses and the path for pedestrians and cyclists. The agreement reached with Quebec will allow the City to occupy the right-of-way of Highway 440 for park purposes for the next 50 years.
This reserved lane will be 1.2 km long between rue Antoine-Faucon and chemin Sainte-Marie, which will benefit residents of Kirkland and the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro.
The Quebec government will partially fund the construction of this transportation infrastructure.
The City of Montreal will unveil the next phases of development of the REV later this fall. When the project was announced in 2019, 17 segments of this cycle network were announced. Five of them have been completed so far.