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Serves five percent of Laval territory at seven times the cost of streetcars<\/b><\/i>
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Laval mayoralty candidate Robert Bordeleau wonders why L\u00e9o Bureau-Blouin \u201cwants to push the orange Metro line to C\u00f4te Vertu, when it will cost much more than $200 million per kilometre to build.\u201d <\/p>\n

Quebec’s youngest MNA announced, June 28, that he plans to press Parti qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/i> Minister of Transport Sylvain Gaudreault to commit to digging a new subway connection under the river, to relieve residents of his riding who have to endure a \u201cmonstrously overloaded\u201d Metro system.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll three [Metro stations] are located in one riding: Laval des Rapides,\u201d Bureau-Blouin stated in his proposal. <\/p>\n

Bordeleau, who is running for mayor under the Parti au service du citoyen<\/i> banner, can’t fathom why Gaudreault would want to spend billions of taxpayers’ money \u201cfor a Metro which currently serves only five percent of Laval territory when, for about the same price, we could blanket the whole city with a tramway network.\u201d <\/p>\n

Bordeleau has long advocated surface rail as a better alternative to serve Laval commuters’ needs than the Metro, which is already operating well beyond capacity. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time they projected the cost of extending the Metro 2007, it was estimated at $200 million per kilometre,\u201d he explained \u201cBy the time that construction commenced a few years hence, it would probably cost $250 million per kilometer\u2014plus the cost of digging a tunnel under the river to Montreal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would instead only cost $30-35 million per kilometer to build a tramway in Laval,\u201d Bordeleau contrasted. \u201cIt would connect with the Metro and with the St. J\u00e9r\u00f4me and Deux Montagnes commuter trains, and cost a lot less to extend a tramway network to Montreal and the South Shore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Mr. Gaudreault was in Laval recently, I asked him about this,\u201d Bordeleau told The Suburban.<\/i> \u201cHe didn’t have an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justifying the cost<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cPublic transit users directly contributed 31.2 percent of its [operating] cost in 2010,\u201d wrote Bureau-Blouin.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsers therefore already pay enough of the cost of public transit that the social benefits fully justify great public investment in its maintenance and development,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n

By comparison, the Toronto Transit Corporation recovered 63.2 percent of its operating costs from the farebox, during the same year.<\/p>\n

In addition, the wildly popular commuter rail system serving Canada’s largest city, GO Transit, is almost completely self-financing. GO Transit, which long ago surpassed VIA Rail as Canada’s largest passenger train service, recovered 82.2 percent of its operating costs from users in 2011.<\/p>\n

Note: In its previous report on this topic<\/a>, The Suburban stated that Metro project involved \u201ca projected cost of $230 million for the 5.2 kilometre underground extension.\u201d That figure was the per kilometre price, implying a total price tag of $1.2 billion.<\/i>
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\nParti au service du citoyen de Laval<\/i> candidate for mayor Robert Bordeleau wants to build eleven streetcar lines in four phases, crisscrossing the entire island with links to Montreal, as a more cost-effective, environment-friendly alternative to extending the Laval Metro to connect with C\u00f4te Vertu station in St. Laurent.<\/b><\/b><\/div>\n


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