MONTREAL — It’s a sight many Montrealers have now grown accustomed to seeing: the unfinished Dorval overpasses that lead to nowhere.
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Global News has learned that Transports Quebec has a dozen people working full time on finalizing the details of what the structures will look like and how they will be built without touching land owned by CP Rail.
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Transports Quebec has confirmed the elevated structures will not be suspended with cables.
At the same time, the transportation department is also negotiating with CP the right of way to build over its tracks and how to manage a work schedule that is agreeable to the private rail company.
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Finalizing those details and reaching an agreement with CP could take many weeks according to a Transports Quebec spokesperson.
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Only then will a call to public tenders be offered in order to eventually award a contract to finish building the overpasses and part of the Dorval exchange south of the tracks and north of A20.
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Transports Quebec has not provided any dates on the timeline for all of this, except to suggest that finishing the project won’t be done until 2017.
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