“All the infrastructure is built and the stations are finalized” on the remaining 51 kilometers of the REM network, which must be inaugurated by the end of 2024, according to CDPQ Infra.
” It is going well. We have 85% of the network which is completed as I speak to you,” said Denis Andlauer, vice-president of CDPQ Infra, on Friday morning as part of an event of the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal (CCMM).
“That basically means that all the infrastructure is built, the stations are finalized,” he continued. There are obviously still the computer systems to install, the control systems. »
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Denis Andlauer
These comments concerned the remaining 51 kilometers of the network, which will connect downtown Montreal to the west of the island and Deux-Montagnes. This part of the network must be inaugurated at the end of 2024, according to the current schedule. The antenna that will serve Montreal-Trudeau airport has its own schedule. Last summer, only 16 kilometers of the network were inaugurated, between downtown and Brossard.
“We should be able to start dynamic tests, that is to say run the first trains, in the spring of next year,” continued the vice-president of CDPQ Infra. “In the Mount Royal tunnel, we have half of the track which is already laid. »
No worries about the trains either. “We have already received 92 cars out of the 106 expected to serve the entire network,” he added. So, we have no issue with the availability of rolling stock. »
Mr. Andlauer refused to speak to the media after his speech.