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\u201cNo brainer\u201d <\/i><\/b>
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\nBy Joel Ceausu<\/b>
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Not all spending is alike, says Marvin Rotrand. <\/p>\n

\u201cLike good and bad cholesterol. Sometimes it\u2019s an investment, not an expense,\u201d and that\u2019s the case with the M\u00e9tro blue line extension says the STM vice-chair, who is presenting a motion at Montreal city council to push for the extension of Line 5 that runs between Snowdon and St. Michel stations. <\/p>\n

\u201cExtend the blue line!\u201d has been the rallying cry in the East End for decades, with politicians, community and local business groups clamouring for its realization before any further extension on orange or yellow lines out to the suburbs. Thirty years ago, it was assumed new STM investments would be on the blue line, but it went north to Laval instead, where three M\u00e9tro stations cost upwards of $800 million. <\/p>\n

There are 250,000 people living in northeast Montreal without direct access to the subway says Rotrand, and those are already users of public transportation\u2014no convincing required. \u201cIt makes no sense that the SRB rapid bus on Pie-IX\u2014which will carry up to 70,000 passengers per day and that Quebec already committed cash to\u2014that nobody committed money to extend the M\u00e9tro one kilometre to meet up with it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Quebec is spending almost three quarters of a billion dollars on the north-south Train de l\u2019Est<\/i> into the city, and Liberal politicians and borough mayors are eager to be photographed at new stations, but where the M\u00e9tro and East End is concerned, \u201cyou can\u2019t get there from here.\u201d<\/p>\n

East End economic development offices, chambers of commerce and citizens groups have long bemoaned the difficulty in hiring in St. L\u00e9onard and Anjou stoked by the dearth of public transit. What\u2019s more, and uncommon in Montreal, the concern and urgency is not couched in environmental terms or any ideological devotion to public transit, but one of pragmatism and an economic imperative, with all politicians in favour, regardless of affiliation. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s great potential for growth and development in the east of the island,\u201d says Rotrand, \u201cbut it is being hampered by difficult access to the subway. St. L\u00e9onard\u2019s own council and Mayor Michel Bissonnet, a strong ally of Denis Coderre, produced a resolution demanding the extension last month, and its sole opposition member Domenic Moschella has also affixed his name to Rotrand\u2019s motion. <\/p>\n

The non-partisan motion asks Montreal City Council to declare extension of the blue line a priority over other lines. The motion supported by a group of opposition councillors including Anjou Mayor Luis Miranda, Moschella, Ville Marie\u2019s Steve Shanahan and NDG independent Jeremy Searle.
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