Lachine mayor Claude Dauphin said he is disappointed the Caisse de Dépôt‘s new $5-billion electric train network has seemingly left the borough off the map.
There are currently two main ways to get downtown from the Montreal borough: the train and the bus.
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Dauphin insisted it is tough going for people living in the Montreal borough to get downtown and construction on a new AMT train station isn’t enough.
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The Gare du Canal, on the Candiac Line, is scheduled to open early next year, complete with a parking lot that would hold 150 vehicles.
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Lachine will then have two stations to serve its 42,000 residents, but Dauphin insists trains and buses aren’t enough.
He is calling for a dedicated tramway to help move commuters from the borough to downtown Montreal.
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Right now, about 23 per cent of residents use public transit to get around, and the mayor insists that number hasn’t budged in a decade.
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Dauphin is hoping a new tramway or similar line will boost mass transit use in Lachine.
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