So if I've got this all right, back in 2009 the STO said it was going to spend $750,000 in order to identify and study potential corridors for rapid transit out to Aylmer. Public consultations came around in 2011, resulting in the presentation of 4 potential corridors - Pink Road, Boulevard Allumettières, Chemin Aylmer, and it appears Boulevard Lucerne.
Fast forward to September 2013, where the STO says it will be spending $105,000 of $750K budget on studying 3 corridors (Pink, Allumétières, and chemin Aylmer), after being asked by the MTQ to add elements to the methodology used by the experts that identified the best corridor to use - which was never made public, as far as I am aware (most likely Allumettières).
« Le MTQ nous a demandé d'ajouter des éléments à la méthodologie que les experts avaient utilisée pour déterminer ce corridor-là et nous redemande de faire l'analyse de trois corridors, dont celui du chemin d'Aylmer, des Allumettières et de Pink », a expliqué M. Martin.
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/o...to-lemay.shtml
Now in October 2014, the new Chair of the STO is lamenting there'll be delays due to the request by the MTQ to go back to the drawing board and evaluate in detail 3 potential corridors, after the STO had assessed only one of them. And they're trying to spin it like this is new information, when, as indicated above, it was back in September 2013 that the MTQ requested this further and appropriate analysis.
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Après une consultation publique, en 2011, le transporteur public avait présenté quatre corridors potentiels. Or, la STO n'avait analysé en profondeur qu'un seul de ces trajets.
Le MTQ, qui financera une partie du prolongement du Rapibus, demande maintenant à la STO d'éliminer l'un des tracés proposés, et de présenter une étude des coûts et des avantages pour chacun des trois autres corridors. Le choix du corridor et les travaux de planification seront donc repoussés d'environ neuf mois.
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http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/o...-rapibus.shtml
So the STO has been sitting on this for over a year, and continues to provide very little information to the public. When Ottawa studies rapid transit, there is a series of Open houses with billboards detailing methodology, potential routes, recommended route, best alternatives, etc etc. Over here in Gatineau they present four options, then choose by some unknown reasoning to evaluate in detail only one of them, and cross their fingers and hope that the province will pay their share for it, without further engaging the public in the discussion. Ridiculous! At least the province is calling out the city to conduct a proper analysis, rather than pick the preferred route from the beginning and build the evaluation around that. Not that I don't doubt they'll be trying that anyway with the next study.
bleh.