Trudeau announces $1.3 billion for Montreal metro extension as election looms
To describe the extension of the blue line eastward by five metro
stations as long-awaited is an understatement. Successive governments
have been dangling the prospect of a new metro line in front of the
city’s east-end voters for 40 years.
stations as long-awaited is an understatement. Successive governments
have been dangling the prospect of a new metro line in front of the
city’s east-end voters for 40 years.
But the $1.3 billion pledged by Trudeau is the largest amount of money
to be put on the table so far for the project, which does not yet have
an estimated final cost. The plan is to extend the metro line five stops
beyond the St-Michel station to the Anjou borough.