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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.
McGill station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie in the downtown core of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Green Line. The station opened on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the Metro.
[10] [11] As with the 1980s Line 3 proposal, the REM will use the historic Mont Royal tunnel to head north from downtown. The new station will be located around 20 storeys or 72 metres (236 feet) below ground, making it the deepest station in Canada and the second deepest in North America after Portland's Washington Park station .
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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]