{"id":809,"date":"2008-04-19T18:37:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T23:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/04\/19\/two-new-metro-stations-by-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:24:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:24:48","slug":"two-new-metro-stations-by-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/19\/two-new-metro-stations-by-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new metro stations by 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stm.info\/English\/en-bref\/a-berri.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stm.info\/English\/en-bref\/images\/a-berri.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After 20 years of stagnation, the metro is back in an expansionist mode: two new stations will be added to the system by 2013, joining the three new stations that were added last year in Laval. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-canada.ca\/regions\/montreal\/version_imprimable.asp?nv=\/regions\/Montreal\/2008\/04\/18\/002-AMT-metro-prolongement.xml\">According to Radio-Canada<\/a>, the AMT has announced that the blue line will likely be extended one stop east from Saint-Michel to Pie-IX and the orange line one stop north from C\u00f4te-Vertu to Bois-Franc. <\/p>\n<p>On the orange line, this will allow the AMT to create an intermodal hub between the metro and the existing Bois-Franc train station; it will also serve as a hub for high-density residential and commercial development. On the blue line, the new station at Pie-IX will better serve the densely-populated east end of Saint-Michel while also connecting the metro to the new BRT line that is planned for Pie-IX Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>After that, what should be next? The official plan is to extend the blue line all the way to Anjou. Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt wants to spend $1 billion buckling the orange line loop, connecting Montmorency station with Bois-Franc. Transit fans have long suggested that the blue line be extended west into NDG and Lachine and that the yellow line be extended from Berri-UQAM to McGill, providing a direct downtown route for South Shore commuters and relief for the green line. I&#8217;ve always thought that service on the Montreal-Deux Montagnes commuter line, which is already electrified, should be upgraded to metro standards, which would be a cheap way of creating a metro line that serves C\u00f4te des Neiges, TMR and Bordeaux-Cartierville.<\/p>\n<p><i>Photo: passengers waiting for the metro in 1966. Courtesy of the STM.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 years of stagnation, the metro is back in an expansionist mode: two new stations will be added to the system by 2013, joining the three new stations that were added last year in Laval. 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