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Dialogue answers you | Is it better to have a tram or buses?
“For public transport, what are the advantages of a tram compared to buses? The tram costs billions in infrastructure to build before it even welcomes its first passenger. I don’t…
Tram network | “I don’t dream in colors,” assures Valérie Plante
Valérie Plante assured Wednesday that she “does not dream in colors” by proposing to provide Montreal with a large tram network by 2050, while existing public transport lacks funding. Posted…
Public transportation | Montreal wants a tram network
Trams. Lots of trams. And metro extensions. The City of Montreal foresees the creation of a major rail transport network in neighborhoods currently poorly served by heavy transport, reveals a…
East of Montreal | The tram will be cheaper and “quicker to deliver”, says the ARTM
The option of a 13 billion tramway is confirmed in the east of Montreal, as revealed The Press, in order to replace the 36 billion underground light rail proposed last…
A tram for the east of Montreal three times cheaper than an underground train
The proposed tramway for the east of Montreal would allow motorists and current public transport users to benefit from advantageous time savings very similar to those of an underground train…
Great South West | A metro extension or tram on the table
The extension of the metro and the construction of a tramway to the city center are among the scenarios considered to provide public transportation in the southwest of Montreal. Updated…
Great South West | A metro extension and a tram on the table
The extension of the metro and the construction of a tramway to the city center are among the scenarios considered to provide public transportation to the southwest of Montreal. Posted…
Eastern structuring project | A tram for a fraction of the price
It is a tramway which will ultimately be recommended to the Legault government to replace the REM de l’Est rather than the 36 billion underground route proposed last summer, we…
How to talk about the third link and the tram without getting angry around the table
In the greater Quebec region, the words “tramway” and “third link” sometimes seem to divide the population as much as the question of sovereignty at the time of referendums. As…
The tram and the investors
Business people have increased their pressure since the arrival of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in the project designated as the Quebec Structuring Network. The media tell…
The tram project at the stop “blocks” development in Quebec
The promise of a tramway in Quebec has attracted real estate projects that are now weakened by its recent suspension. Discreet, the real estate developers who bet on this are…
Quebec by tram from 1897 to 1948
The octogenarians of Quebec remember the time when, before 1949, we took the tramway to get around, which we had done since 1897. In addition to the fact that we…
What the tram file says about the Quebec mystery
The Legault government recently postponed the decision on the Quebec tramway project, passing the baton to the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. The latter is entrusted with a…
Quebec City forced to go it alone for tram infrastructure
The Quebec tramway must now take an alternative route to come into the world. Faced with the absence of private partners to ensure the construction of the infrastructures which will…
The tram faces opposition from 60% of the population of Quebec
The Quebec tramway still faces headwinds from the population of the capital. A survey presented Friday by the City indicates that 60% of people are opposed to the largest project…
Making what is necessary possible with the tram
Open letter addressed to the elected officials of the City of Quebec, the National Assembly and the House of Commons, Between 1981 and 2009, over this period of 28 years,…
Still the tram | The duty
The stars seem to be aligning. Congestion on the 20. Congestion on the Laurentian. Congestion on Dufferin-Montmorency and on the 40 eastbound. If you are one of those who still…
Too late to put the tram on the side track?
Increasingly unpopular, the Quebec tramway project has never seemed so fragile. But with hundreds of millions already invested and the signing of a $569 million contract with Alstom, is it…
The tram remains the only “alternative” for Quebec, according to its mayor
There is no alternative to the Quebec tramway, other than inaction and the worsening of congestion problems for “at least 15 years”, said Mayor Bruno Marchand, the day after a…
A black tram for Quebec
(Quebec) The multinational Alstom presented Friday sketches of the future tramway of Quebec, which will be partly produced at its factory in La Pocatière. Posted at 11:37 a.m. The French…