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Montreal’s REM faces new delays
Mount Royal tunnel work pushes back opening into 2025
MONTREAL — Ongoing work in the Mount Royal tunnel will further delay completion of the Réseau express métropolitain light rail project, the private developers said today (Wednesday, April 24).
REM developer CDPQ Infra, the infrastructure arm of provincial pension manager Caisee de dépôt et placement du Quebec, said in an update posted today on the REM website that “the highly complex work to modernize the Mount Royal Tunnel is not quite finished and will continue. This means that testing of this segment will not be able to begin for the originally scheduled opening in late 2024 and will postpone the commissioning of the Deux-Montagnes and the Anse-à-l’Orme branches.”
The company is offering no estimate when service might begin. The Montreal Gazette reports CDPQ Infra President Jean-Marc Arbaud told a parliamentary hearing today that “it’s clear we’re targeting 2025, it won’t be 2024.” . . .
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