Demonstrators concerned over the REM’s proposed eastern link
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More accessible public transit is never frowned upon in Montreal but for some living east of downtown, the new proposed REM train line poses more problems than solutions.
A group of citizens against the east link of the REM train line are hoping the project is reconsidered.
More than 100 demonstrators gathered at Parc Pierre-Tétreault in the Mercier-Est borough to demand more public consultation for the $10-billion public transit system.
“We need something that will improve our quality of life,” says Daniel Chartier, Collectif en environnement Mercier-Est vice-president and protest organizer.
“This project is a bad apple. And it’s not a real solution.”
Chartier says despite ongoing public consultations, the CDPQ, the Caisse de dépôt in charge of the REM, isn’t taking into consideration the real concerns of those living in the eastern parts of the city.
The REM de L’est will be an above-ground, 25-kilometre track that will link downtown to Pointe-aux-Trembles, much like the tall cement track taking shape in the west island along highway 40.
A seven-kilometre underground route to the Montreal North borough is also in the plans.
“The REM will go through their neighborhoods. And that means they will see it right up next to their houses and their commercial areas and they don’t want that,” says Laurel Thompson, an environmental activist and member of Trainsparence, a citizens’ group against the REM.
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