Tuesday, July 07, 2026

buck up, fried

I've been on public transit a lot more lately, taking the metro, the REM and buses. While looking at the metro map while riding the metro, I had an idea about expansion. Below is the network as it is and showing the Blue line extension heading north eastwards.

Once the Anjou station (the blue line extension furthest station north-east) is built and in action, it seems a no brainer to create a U connection to the tip of the green line with perhaps one or two stations in that U shape.

The next obvious one is to connect the Orange line from Cote Vertu to MoMo, stopping a few times on the island of Montreal and at one of the two REM stations in its path, and then one or two additional stops in Laval before reaching MoMo. This makes the Orange line a loop.

The least obvious one is to connect Angrignon to Snowdon, so that what was once a U shape given the first suggestion I gave above, now becomes a loop.

The final suggestion I have is to extend the Yellow line to end up directly at the St Hubert airport, to have the metro station embedded beneath the terminal.

The mayor of Montreal has asked what can be done with Lisette, the TBM being used for the Blue Line extension, and I would say at the very least, do that connection to the tip of the green line at that north-east end of the island; the TBM will already be in exactly the correct position to simply continue going along the path I propose.

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