Repentigny-Mascouche Line (AMT)

The Repentigny-Mascouche Line. is a commuter rail line, proposed to be operated in the Greater Montreal Quebec, Canada area, by the Agence métropolitaine de transport, or AMT (in English, the 'Metropolitan Transportation Corporation' or 'MTC'), the umbrella organization that plans, integrates, and coordinates public transportation services across this region.

Overview

{| Railway line headerThis line was announced in a press conference on March 17 2006, and follows a major campaign by the residents of Repentigny, Quebec to obtain commuter rail to their area.

The 51-kilometre (32 mile) line would use the existing Mount Royal Tunnel and Canadian National track from Montreal's Central Station to Repentigny, near the VIA Rail station at Le Gardeur. New track will be built from Repentigny to Terrebonne along the Quebec Autoroute 640, then the former Canadian Pacific (now the Chemins de Fer Québec-Gatineau) line to Mascouche. The total journey to/from Masouche and Montreal would be 61 minutes.

At an estimated cost of $300 million (CAD), the line will have 14 stops (11 new, three existing) and offer five departures per weekday rush-hour. The line was originally scheduled to be operational in 2008, but has now been pushed back to 2010. [http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/montreal/story.html?id=72d1c06d-927b-4cd0-b94a-17163fa5e95e&k=2320]

On May 14, 2007 the AMT and New Jersey Transit put out a joint call for tenders to purchase dual-powered locomotives. In Montreal, the locomotives will run on diesel for most of the trip and switch to electrical power to enter Mount Royal Tunnel before ending at Central Station. For its part, New Jersey Transit will use the locomotives to pass through the Trans-Hudson Express Tunnel as part of its project to construct a new two-track Hudson River tunnel adjacent to the two existing single-track tunnels. This international project is the first of its kind in North America. [http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/montreal/story.html?id=72d1c06d-927b-4cd0-b94a-17163fa5e95e&k=2320]

History

There was once a temporary commuter train service organized by the STCUM in the early 1990s while Autoroute 40 was being rebuilt. It ran on Canadian National railway track from a temporary station near the Du Collège metro station to a temporary station in Repentigny with an intermediate temporary station near the Sauvé metro station. As there was no existing regional transit coordinator the line was never very successful.

List of stations

The following is the list of proposed stations:

Station	Location	Connections
Central Station	Borough of Ville-Marie	VIA Rail, Amtrak, Downtown Terminus (Terminus RTL). Bonaventure metro station, Société de transport de Montréal (STM) 150, 410, 430, 515, 535, 935 (within walking distance along René Lévesque Boulevard), 61, 75 ,168, 420 (On University Street), 74 (On rue de la Gauchetière).
Canora	Border between the town of Mount-Royal and the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce	STM 92, 160 (east bound Bates Road / Wilderton Avenue and west bound Barclay Street / Wilderton Avenue within 200 m walking distance [http://www.stm.info/English/bus/plan_lig/A-PL160.htm Map] ).
Mount-Royal	Town of Mount-Royal	STM 16,119,165,535.
de l'Acadie	Borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville	STM 121, 179. Within stiff walking distance of the Chabanel station
Sauvé		Sauvé metro station, VIA Rail (See Ahuntsic railway station), STM 31,121,140,180
Pie-IX	Boroughs of Montréal-Nord and Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension	STM 139, 143
Lacordaire	Boroughs of Montréal-Nord and Saint-Léonard	STM 32,199 (MB)
Anjou	Borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles	STM
Rivière-des-Prairies		STM 49.
Pointe-aux-Trembles		VIA Rail, (See Pointe-aux-Trembles railway station), STM 184, 186, 410, 430.
Charlemagne	Charlemagne
Repentigny	Repentigny	VIA Rail????
Terrebonne	Terrebonne
Mascouche	Mascouche

This list may be updated as more information is released.

ee also

* Deux-Montagnes Line
* Dorion-Rigaud Line
* Blainville-Saint-Jerome Line
* Mont-Saint-Hilaire Line
* Delson-Candiac Line

References

External links

* [http://www.amt.qc.ca/grandsprojets/traindelest/projet.asp Un projet demandé par la communauté] (In French)
* [http://www.amt.qc.ca/comm/affiche_communique.asp?no=303 Communiqué from official AMT website] (In French; includes a map of proposed route)
* [http://www.ville.repentigny.qc.ca/communique/traindebanlieue19fevrier07.html Communiqué from the city of Repentigny] (In French)