Several organizations dedicated to promoting sustainable mobility gathered in downtown Montreal on Monday morning to denounce “the lack of significant progress in public transportation under the Legault government.”
Access to viable transportation, Équiterre, the David Suzuki Foundation, the Montreal Regional Environmental Council, Piétons Québec, Vélo Québec and Vivre en ville are calling for more funding so that public transportation meets the needs of the population.
“Of the major structuring public transport projects that Mr. (François) Legault had promised, none are currently being implemented,” argued Christian Savard, general director of Vivre en ville.
“Finally, remember that the government was committed to identifying solutions to financing problems, in particular by concluding a five-year agreement and through a financing project,” indicated Blaise Rémillard, responsible for mobility and urban planning. at CRE Montreal.
He added that “the deadlines initially established for these two approaches have long passed.”
These organizations, gathered on the sidelines of an event organized by Trajectoire Québec, notably underlined that the extension of the metro/REM in Laval has been abandoned, that the tramway project in Quebec is “on pause”, that the “structuring project of the South Shore of Montreal” is “at a standstill” and that “the REM de l’Ouest stop at Saint-Jean/Chambly” has also been abandoned.