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Trasforming Travel
Around Montreal
Shore to Bonaventure-Central Station, followed by The engineering challenges on the project are
the other branches of the network which will be somewhat jaw dropping. The future Édouard-
gradually put into service in 2022-2023. Montpetit station, which will be built at the
Université de Montréal as part of the work for the
“There will be a REM train going downtown every 2.5
minutes,” says Nadeau. “From downtown, it will take
approximately 25 minutes to go to the airport.” To
ensure a seamless start to the project, Nadeau says
they system will undergo 13 months of testing in
the various climate conditions and for the driverless
system to work out any kinks before riders are
ready to board in 2021.
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