3.3 Billion for Quebec City Transit

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New investments in Quebec City’s public transit network

August 19, 2019
Quebec City, Quebec

In Quebec and across the country, we need to make sure our public transit infrastructure keeps pace with our growing cities. By investing in public transit, we can strengthen the middle class and build better, greener communities.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec’s Minister of Transport and Minister Responsible for the Estrie Region, François Bonnardel, today announced joint funding to establish a structuring public transit network in Quebec City. The project, which also includes an investment from the City of Québec, will integrate several modes of public transit and provide comfortable, high-quality services to transit users.

Once complete, Quebec City’s public transit network will include two trambus lines over a total of 15 kilometres, as well as a 23 kilometre-long tramway line. Today’s funding will also help improve current Métrobus lines and build 16 kilometres of dedicated bus lanes and four new park-and-ride lots.

Four hubs will allow users to

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I don’t decode. “Trambus”. Is it private bus ROW? Clarification please

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Article is from the Prime Ministers Office.

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I think ‘Trambus’ might be Quebec french for what we would call a ‘trolleybus’ (at least that’s what they were called in Edmonton).

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Or it could be the rubber-tired, rail-guided-and-power-ground-return Lohr system, as discussed in the Jack May visits Paris thread.

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It would be nice if they gave Toronto 3.3 billion for transit. Never going to happen, though. But if they did, it would be wasted.

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But didn’t he say it sucks, sucks, sucks, and then wears ruts in the pavement?

Even a Francophone-sympathetic government wouldn’t pay full price for that new, would they?

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Maybe they would. Note the technolongy of the Montreal Metro. And note extensions still planned for the Paris installation.

I think the problem Jack noted with the cocncrete can b e solved by the concrete developed for the purpose, as has been done with the Metros. And he notes the problem with guided buses with other technology is even worse.

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3.3 Billion… that’s a lot of moolah… but!.. it’s an election year so the announcement has to come out now, problems do not matter.