Comments on: La Controverse Autour du REM est Devenue une Guerre MÃ©diatiqueâ€¦

By: Dennie

Dennie — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 08:27:07 +0000

We are getting absolutely reamed by the construction mafia I’m afraid. This project is designed to tick political/lobby boxes (rapid transit for airport, west island, brossard) while being rammed forward without much public consultation, because the CDPQ is “assuming the risk”. There will be graft at every single level possible, and the public will receive the worst system possible at the highest price on the longest timeline.

Prepare for a 10 billion dollar Skytrain (complete with elevated, surface and subway sections) to the Fairview Mall, Airport and Quartier Dix-30. SNC lavalin at the helm of course.

By: Fraser Pollock

Fraser Pollock — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:50:38 +0000

Thank you for the information @Sam! Wow they have gone right through to the RFQ and RFP stage already, what happened to the EA, or Environmental Assessment that needs to be legally done before any project like this? Are the laws different there in Quebec or are they exempt because this is a semi private transport project not government? What I see worries me a lot, as a former Torontonian (I live in Ottawa) and a person who loves visiting an actual big city like Montreal and likes its people a lot (Ottawa talks big as a national capital but it really is quite a parochial small provincially thinking city. Its honestly getting better but it still thinks like a small town at its core). As the article @Sam provided the link too said, CDPQ Infra has outlined the Request For Proposals for the REM Project and divided it into 2 parts. The first, the engineering technology contract part of this project I see a familiar group of engineering companies with SNC Lavlin and all their problems/issues heading one bidder and a untrustworthy construction conglomerate heading the other, both ready to trash perfectly good Montreal railway rights of way, all to put in what appears to me anyway to be, overly expensive infrastructure that will not have the capacity or robustness of what it is replacing! For the second part the RSSOM contract, I see 2 of the 3 bidders as companies that are simply going to provide a modified heavier version of their technology running in Vancouver. Both of which, lack true heavy passenger carrying capacity unless massive amounts of money are spent modifying the existing parts of the planned right of way into a hybrid Light metro system, that destroys the heart of your current Commuter Rail Network. I fear the great people of the Montreal area will be locked into what I see as a system which will be mostly using proprietary operating technology, with very few or only a single corporate vehicle supplier from this time forward and thus, forever limiting who can supply replacements vehicles and the permanently high capital and operating costs that will come from this kind of arrangement.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:49:26 +0000

FYI:
http://www.metro-report.com/news/projects/single-view/view/five-prequalify-for-montreal-rem-contracts.html

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 13:59:50 +0000

Man I am so excited for that train to be available. Haters gonna hate.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:03:34 +0000

I object to the destruction, the killing of the woods next to Fairview shopping center for a train station and parking. From Bing maps https://binged.it/2eBsQHt

By: Ron Goes

Ron Goes — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:23:59 +0000

There is no magic associated with the institutional acceptance of this project. The marching orders have been given. No dissent is allowed