I am against the tramway, of course! The case is now before the courts. The City refuses to negotiate with the opponents, this project will be forced down our throats. Not surprised that the City only wants to negotiate the color of the benches, it’s been like that since the beginning! I financially, modestly, supported Quebec deserves better who wants to block the project before it is too late, although many trees have already been cut down—look at the massacre on Dorchester! People really need to be heard.
Expensive, tunneling, poorly suited to the city, its topography, upper and lower town, its climate, its winters. Rigid, the route cannot be changed, unlike the trambus which does not require rails, the tram requires a concrete platform, an obstacle which divides the districts. The tramway would serve only a small portion of the city. At the same price, the trambus could serve a larger territory. It requires the felling of a large number of trees in neighborhoods that are heat islands, is that green? And the greenhouse gases to dig the tunnel?
Régis Labeaume was never elected by promising a tramway. He opposed Anne Guérette in the elections, who defended him. He fired the hood just after the election, it gives the measure of the cynicism of the man. So he acted without a warrant on the biggest infrastructure case in the city’s history. Bruno Marchand did the same! He promised ten major changes to the tramway and he abandoned them all after the election. The politician swallowed up by the technocratic machine, at the service of said machine instead of being at the service of the population.
The tramway is in serious democratic deficit. The people never supported him. I am for public transport and its development, I don’t have a car and I never have. But it is not enough to say tramway equals sustainable and green development for it to be true and good. The tramway was not supported in the last two municipal elections in Quebec. The polls are not very favorable to him, despite the propaganda campaign led by the City, paid for by our taxes. We can be for the tramway, but we cannot claim that the project as it stands has received the approval of the voters.