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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
Perhaps, but if the station is meant to serve the bulk of the city's population (not counting places like West Island that are closer to Dorval Via) then the most important things are that it's close the the population centre and close to transportation options isn't it? In a city of 1.8 million in a metro area of over 4 million, downtown holds a small fraction of the population. Yes it's the single most important part of the metro area, but it's still just one part and a place where most people don't live.
As for the Blue line, it may not got downtown itself, but it's still a frequent, fast rapid transit connection across the geographic centre of the city connecting to the orange line twice as well as to REM.
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Even if the island of Montréal now has a population of more than 2M, ( 1.88M in 2011) the population growth has not come from the West Island or the East end. All the growth came from within the city of Montréal. The central portion of the island is where the government will put all its cash.
The REM is designed to bring people downtown as fast as possible. Station Rive-Sud (REM) in Brossard will act like Station Cartier (Métro) in Laval.