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These new stations—Central Station, McGill, and Édouard-Montpetit—would improve downtown Montreal service by integrating the REM with the Metro system through connections to the Orange, Green and Blue Lines. Included with news of the three new stations was an increased price tag of $5.9 billion for the entire project. [17] [18]
The firm had then yet to inaugurate the original REM system's first line. [16] The REM de l'Est was announced as a 32 km (19.88 mi) extension of the REM, with 23 stations connecting the underserved east of Montreal Island to downtown Montreal. [1] [17] Like the REM, the REM de l'Est would have been an electric, fully automated light metro system.
Bois-Franc station is a future Réseau express métropolitain (REM) interchange station in the Bois-Franc neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. REM service is expected to begin at the station in October 2025. [6] It was formerly a commuter rail station on the Deux-Montagnes line until Exo ended service in 2020.
In November 2019, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante first expressed a desire to name the station after the late Premier of Quebec, Bernard Landry, due to his involvement as Quebec's Minister of Finance, in the redevelopment of the area adjacent to Griffintown and the western portion of Old Montreal as the Cité du Multimédia, a business cluster for Information Technology companies. [7]
Two banks of high-speed elevators will connect the REM platforms to the Blue Line station and the surface. Construction on the Édouard-Montpetit REM station began in July 2018. [ 15 ] Blasting to expand the Mont Royal tunnel to accommodate new platforms, passageways and utility rooms began in October 2018, and lasted around a year. [ 16 ]
Beginning on May 11, 2020, the Mascouche line was rerouted around the Mount Royal Tunnel, bypassing Mont-Royal and Canora stations due to the construction of the Réseau express métropolitain (REM). [2] In 2025, Côte-de-Liesse will open as the Mascouche line's new southern terminus, replacing Central. Riders wishing to reach Central Station ...
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The station is located at 7300 Canora Road, immediately northwest of Jean Talon Street.. From the opening of the Deux-Montagnes Line in 1918 by the Canadian Northern Railway until the modernization of the line, which took place between 1993 and 1995, the station was called Portal Heights because of its location at the northwest end of the Mount Royal Tunnel.