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Originally Posted by Crawford
Looks cool. Would this be the only electrified commuter rail in Canada?
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The
Deux-Montagnes Line -- which is at the core of this proposal -- is currently Canada's only electrified commuter-rail line. IIRC Toronto's Go network has plans to electrify its system in the future as well.
A major issue with calling this a "light rail" proposal is that the network spine is currently heavily used by AMT services: the Deux-Montagnes Line as well as the
Mascouche and
Mont-St-Hilaire lines both access central Montréal with critical infrastructure this proposal takes over: the
Mt. Royal Tunnel and the
Victoria Bridge across the St. Lawrence (the latter still used by CN and Via as well).
At a certain level, the only way this plan doesn't actively
harm Montréal's existing commuter network is if we instead interpret the project as being branches off of Deux-Montagnes, packaged as "light rail" but really needing to coexist with the network's other heavy users and being more akin to Denver's
A Line.