{"id":239,"date":"2007-11-07T15:02:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T19:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=239"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:26:40","slug":"south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"South Shore politicians want their light rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rtl-longueuil.qc.ca\/images\/phSLR.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this fall, on Car Free Day no less, the Journal reported that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtl-longueuil.qc.ca\/pages\/pr_SLR_accueil.htm\">South Shore light rail project<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.canoe.com\/cgi-bin\/imprimer.cgi?id=316789\">dead<\/a>. It would cost too much, said the federal corporation that manages the Jacques-Cartier and Champlain bridges. This, despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amt.qc.ca\/grandsprojets\/slr\/index.asp\">millions of dollars worth of studies<\/a> that declared the project to be both desirable and fiscally feasible. <\/p>\n<p>No bother to South Shore politicians: they&#8217;re fighting as hard as ever for the light rail line that would link Brossard with Central Station, by way of the Quartier des multim\u00e9dias. &#8220;Il faut absolument faire quelque chose. C&#8217;est plus que pressant. Le service sur la voie r\u00e9serv\u00e9e du pont Champlain \u00e9tait un projet pilote&#8230; il y a 30 ans. \u00c7a prend un SLR, que ce soit sur l&#8217;estacade, sur un nouveau pont ou en tunnel. Mais \u00e7a le prend! \u00c7a presse,&#8221; declared Claude Gladu, the mayor of Longueuil. <\/p>\n<p>The most likely scenario for the light rail line would be to pass along the Champlain Bridge&#8217;s ice bridge. The bridge&#8217;s bus lanes already carry 16,000 passengers per hour in the morning and afternoon rushes, about the same as the Yellow Line link to Longueuil. A train could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/components\/print.aspx?id=101eea40-3d46-4391-9c4b-116957da87d4\">expand that number to 27,000<\/a>, carrying as many as 120,000 passengers per day. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-canada.ca\/regions\/montreal\/version_imprimable.asp?nv=\/regions\/Montreal\/2007\/11\/05\/002-SLR-Champlain-Elus.xml\">projected line<\/a> would be about 13 kilometres in length, with five stations &#8212; most on the Montreal side &#8212; a maximum speed of 100 kilometres per hour and a total travel time of 13 minutes from one end of the line to the other. Trains would come every three minutes in rush hour. $1 billion and four years would be needed to complete its construction. <\/p>\n<p>It seems obvious that a more reliable alternative to the Champlain bus lanes is needed to serve the South Shore. This light rail line, which has the support of politicians and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/article\/20070125\/CPOPINIONS\/701250879\/5288\/CPOPINIONS\">business leaders<\/a> on both sides of the St. Lawrence, would have the added bonus of being the spine for the new commercial and residential development that will be built along the site of the Bonaventure Expressway, which is slated to be demolished. <\/p>\n<p>Given the expense of building new metro lines, especially in low-density suburban areas, it seems like light rail would be the best way to get commuters out of their cars and to encourage transit-oriented development both in Montreal and the South Shore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this fall, on Car Free Day no less, the Journal reported that the South Shore light rail project was dead. It would cost too much, said the federal corporation that manages the Jacques-Cartier and Champlain bridges. This, despite millions of dollars worth of studies that declared the project to be both desirable and fiscally<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;South Shore politicians want their light rail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7839,7840,33],"tags":[1003,75,1002,8,1000,48,94,346,125,58,1001,302],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neighbourhoods","category-politics","category-transit","tag-bonaventure-expressway","tag-brossard","tag-central-station","tag-city-hall","tag-claude-gladu","tag-downtown","tag-longueuil","tag-mayor","tag-montreal","tag-banlieues","tag-travel-time","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>South Shore politicians want their light rail - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"South Shore politicians want their light rail - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Earlier this fall, on Car Free Day no less, the Journal reported that the South Shore light rail project was dead. It would cost too much, said the federal corporation that manages the Jacques-Cartier and Champlain bridges. This, despite millions of dollars worth of studies that declared the project to be both desirable and fiscallyContinue reading &quot;South Shore politicians want their light rail&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-11-07T19:02:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-01-21T16:26:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.rtl-longueuil.qc.ca\/images\/phSLR.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Christopher DeWolf\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Spacing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Spacing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Christopher DeWolf\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/\",\"name\":\"South Shore politicians want their light rail - Spacing Montreal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.rtl-longueuil.qc.ca\/images\/phSLR.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2007-11-07T19:02:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-01-21T16:26:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#\/schema\/person\/8d797e2a77c30d58d1f6fe3d915ad3fd\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.rtl-longueuil.qc.ca\/images\/phSLR.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.rtl-longueuil.qc.ca\/images\/phSLR.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"South Shore politicians want their light rail\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/\",\"name\":\"Spacing Montreal\",\"description\":\"Canadian Urbanism Uncovered  |  Montreal Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#\/schema\/person\/8d797e2a77c30d58d1f6fe3d915ad3fd\",\"name\":\"Christopher DeWolf\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93c8aca91d7cfbd895846128d058930b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93c8aca91d7cfbd895846128d058930b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Christopher DeWolf\"},\"description\":\"Check out Urbanphoto!\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.urbanphoto.net\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/author\/christopher\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"South Shore politicians want their light rail - Spacing Montreal","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"South Shore politicians want their light rail - Spacing Montreal","og_description":"Earlier this fall, on Car Free Day no less, the Journal reported that the South Shore light rail project was dead. It would cost too much, said the federal corporation that manages the Jacques-Cartier and Champlain bridges. This, despite millions of dollars worth of studies that declared the project to be both desirable and fiscallyContinue reading \"South Shore politicians want their light rail\"","og_url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/","og_site_name":"Spacing Montreal","article_published_time":"2007-11-07T19:02:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-01-21T16:26:40+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.rtl-longueuil.qc.ca\/images\/phSLR.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Christopher DeWolf","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Spacing","twitter_site":"@Spacing","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Christopher DeWolf","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/","url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/","name":"South Shore politicians want their light rail - Spacing Montreal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.rtl-longueuil.qc.ca\/images\/phSLR.jpg","datePublished":"2007-11-07T19:02:03+00:00","dateModified":"2013-01-21T16:26:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#\/schema\/person\/8d797e2a77c30d58d1f6fe3d915ad3fd"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.rtl-longueuil.qc.ca\/images\/phSLR.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.rtl-longueuil.qc.ca\/images\/phSLR.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/07\/south-shore-politicians-want-their-light-rail\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"South Shore politicians want their light rail"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#website","url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/","name":"Spacing Montreal","description":"Canadian Urbanism Uncovered  |  Montreal Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#\/schema\/person\/8d797e2a77c30d58d1f6fe3d915ad3fd","name":"Christopher DeWolf","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93c8aca91d7cfbd895846128d058930b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93c8aca91d7cfbd895846128d058930b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Christopher DeWolf"},"description":"Check out Urbanphoto!","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.urbanphoto.net"],"url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/author\/christopher\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19099,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/19099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}