Metropolitan public transport | Other players could submit projects, says Minister Rouleau

(Quebec) Other players could submit public transit projects in the metropolitan area.

The Minister for Transport, Chantal Rouleau, opened this door Thursday as part of the debate on the REM de l’Est, the controversial electric train project of the Caisse de depot for the east of Montreal which mobilizes many opponents. .

“Perhaps there would be other players,” suggested the Minister Delegate, in a debate in the Blue Room.

In a telephone interview, the Minister’s press attaché confirmed that other stakeholders, public or private, “could be interested” in carrying out structuring transport projects in the Montreal region.

“We are completely rethinking” public transit, said Catherine Boucher on the phone.

“We want to look at all the possibilities. We do not want to confine ourselves to granting exclusivity (of public transport projects) to the Caisse de depot or the Regional Metropolitan Transport Authority (ARTM). »