Montreal to Upgrade Metro System...Montreal need 336 new Metro Car...
Friday, April 04, 2003
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Montreal will benefit from a $4-billion transit upgrade which
will include an extension of the métro system, a Montreal
newspaper reported Friday
According to La Presse, more than half of the money will be
for public transit.
The subway suffers from flooding and the trains need to be
repaired frequently. It is also controlled by computer systems
for which replacement parts are no longer available.
The City of Montreal and the Montreal Transit Society will
both contribute money to extend the métro's blue line five
stations eastward, toward the borough of Anjou.
Details of the transit upgrades will be announced in December,
at the same time that an urban development plan will be
presented for the metropolitain region.
According to the head of the city's transportation committee,
Claude Dauphin, once the provincial elections are completed,
the province's Transportation minister will have to quickly
make some important decisions.
A month ago, the STM asked the province for the authorization
to replace the 336 cars in the métro system which, after 37
years, are among the oldest in service in the world.
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