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Originally Posted by esquire
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That seems a bit half-assed and a good way to discourage ridership. Why not reduce the extension by one stop and use the savings to make it a Metro extension instead of one of the other modes?
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There's another element at play here - the Orange line is already past capacity, so we can't add more passengers at Jean Talon. What they should do instead is build the metro out to Pie IX and build LRT from Downtown to Laval via René Lévesque and Pie IX with a spur turning off at Jean Talon to Anjou. You avoid a costly metro extension under bungalows and duplexes, you provide direct service for more people and you avoid burdening the Orange Line any more than It already is. Probably cost less too.
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Something similar to this:
Or this, plus an extension all the way downtown
