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Don\u2019t expect new commuter rail lines anytime soon<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

By Robert Frank<\/b><\/p>\n

\nWith files from Kevin Woodhouse<\/b><\/div>\n
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The west end of Montreal has been stuck in a transportation time warp since 1976. The further you set foot west of downtown, the more you rewind the clock. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s still Land of the Minivan in the western suburbs. That\u2019s not West Islanders\u2019 fault. Whether through benign or malign neglect, the province has often ignored or delayed grappling with most West Island transportation infrastructure needs for nearly four decades. <\/p>\n

Public transit hasn\u2019t progressed much since the suburbs won their fight for Montreal bus service. Packed commuter trains that still share the busy transcontinental main line with freight trains got some newer, second-hand rolling stock, but don\u2019t hold your breath for the long-vaunted commuter-only Train de l\u2019ouest.<\/i>
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\nWith much fanfare, Quebec Transport Minister Robert Po\u00ebti this month simply commited $80 million to buy more used railcars, to add three more trains each way daily to existing lines that take commuters downtown and back. Delivery might take two years. The announcement differed little from three years ago, when Clifford Lincoln led a parade of West Island mayors downtown for a similar declaration by then-Transport Minister Pierre Moreau. <\/p>\n

During the provincial election campaign, Premier Philippe Couillard promised to put the Train de l\u2019ouest<\/i> line \u201cback on the table.\u201d <\/p>\n

However, during this month\u2019s city council meeting, Beaconsfield Mayor Georges Bourelle cautioned residents not to expect to see Train de l\u2019ouest<\/i> up and running during the next four years of the new provincial government\u2019s mandate. <\/p>\n

Meantime, the West Island\u2019s population has grown and its three main north-south road arteries\u2014Sources, St. John and St. Charles\u2014face daily gridlock at rush hour. There\u2019s no relief in sight. <\/p>\n

Commuting is so delay-prone that telecom giant Bell recently told its persistently late employees that they will simply have to leave home earlier in the morning in order to get to work on time, or face disciplinary measures.<\/p>\n

Transit times might soon spike, with pending closures to part of the Turcot exchange for repair work. <\/p>\n

Rush hour means that a commute downtown from \u00cele Bizard can take up to two hours. Many residents have already thrown in the towel and have moved closer to the city core. Among them are former Premier Pauline Marois and Transport Minister Po\u00ebti.<\/p>\n

Yet an easy, effective solution has for decades languished on the drawing board: a fourth artery, the Jacques Bizard corridor, would run from \u00cele Bizard over Highway 40 to the Lakeshore Hospital. Ironically, it would cost much less to remove the only roadblock\u2014to expropriate a few blocks of housing in Pierrefonds\u2014than the eye-watering sums that Quebec City is investing in other transport infrastructure projects. <\/p>\n

For example, estimates of the price to complete Transport Quebec\u2019s infamous bridge to nowhere in Dorval on Highway 20 reportedly has already topped a half-billion dollars.<\/p>\n

\nReviving the Charest government\u2019s commitment to extending Highway 440 to Kirkland could incur a similar bill to build an overpass at Sainte Marie that will link it to Highway 40.<\/div>\n
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\nThe 440 project came under fire from a number of West Island mayors, who contended that it will help developers to justify constructing new homes in Western Pierrefonds while doing nothing to relieve growing gridlock.<\/div>\n
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\nBoulevards like St. John (pictured) and its counterparts St. Charles and Sources have for years operated beyond their design capacity. The result? Traveling north or south on the West Island takes longer than heading downtown.<\/b><\/div>\n
\n(Photo \u00a9 Robert Frank)<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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\nTransport Quebec owns land in Beaconsfield at the north end of Angell Woods that could be cleared to build an entrance ramp to link Highway 40 with the Highway 440 extension.<\/b><\/div>\n
\n(Photo \u00a9 Robert Frank)<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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\nSainte Anne de Bellevue citizens are paying dearly to reopen Highway 40\u2019s derelict Exit 41, which has been closed for nearly two-and-a-half years.<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nQuebec still needs to resolve right of way issues in order to complete Dorval\u2019s bridge to nowhere, which has for years stood unfinished at the gateway to the province\u2019s largest airport.<\/b><\/div>\n
\n(Photo \u00a9 Robert Frank)<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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\nThe Suburban witnessed provincial inspectors checking the C\u00f4te Vertu overpass, soon after blocks concrete fell from a nearby span at Henri Bourassa, Jan. 13. That didn\u2019t stop it from raining 10 cm chunks of concrete onto Highway 40 below, Apr. 16, raising doubts about Transport Quebec\u2019s inspection techniques.<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nJuly 6, 2012, the Donegani overpass in Pointe Claire released baseball-sized chunks of concrete onto the street below. In 1993, then-municipal affairs minister Claude Ryan forced cities to take over provincially built bridges like it, so now, city taxpayers are footing the $3.7 million bill to restore the viaduct\u2019s crumbling concrete and rusting reinforcing rods.<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nCommuter rail in Quebec is way behind Ontario\u2019s GO Transit and British Columbia\u2019s SkyTrain systems. A proposal to turn CN Rail\u2019s existing Doney spur into a commuter line parallel to Hymus in Pointe Claire never went beyond the drawing board.<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nThe province recently postponed its longstanding plan to replace the Sources overpass over Highway 20 this year. The viaduct underwent emergency repair Jan. 14, to fix loose concrete.<\/b><\/div>\n
\n(Photo \u00a9 Robert Frank)<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n

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