Meanwhile....
3 Metro stations on Montreal's Blue line could be closed for weeks due to safety issues
This might just be semantics, but the Scarborough RT was already slated for decommissioning and itsMeanwhile...
Toronto's entire blue line closes forever due to safety issues.
Sure, but a metro line built in the 80's should never have been slated for decommissioning in the 2020s.This might just be semantics, but the Scarborough RT was already slated for decommissioning and its replacement was already due for replacement. It was simply determined that it’s not worth it to invest into the line to restore it to safe conditions for just a handful of additional years of operation. Had this happened 5 or 10 years earlier, the line would have already by now…
Sure, but a metro line built in the 80's should never have been slated for decommissioning in the 2020s.
Any updates on the LRT tunnel under the Lachine Canal on Wellington? Opened in about 1933, with streetcar operations suspended in 1956 after only 23 years?Sure, but a metro line built in the 80's should never have been slated for decommissioning in the 2020s.
Wow, I always wondered what that was for!Any updates on the LRT tunnel under the Lachine Canal on Wellington? Opened in about 1933, with streetcar operations suspended in 1956 after only 23 years?
They finally restored local rail transit as the REM bridge over the canal is only about 75 metres to the east; but they forgot to build any stations in Montreal for it!
North Entrance in 2010s
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South Entrance in 1936
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Wow, I always wondered what that was for!
Thanks, and I believed he lived here, though probably around the time that tunnel was closed (and I was born)…Some more info, and pictures for you:
The Wellington tunnel
Abandoned, barricaded and destroyed at the south entry of the Lachine Canal, the tunnel Wellington currently offers lack of interest for urban exploration (can't go inside). Back in 1990, it permanently ceases its activities with the official opening of the Wellington bridge located next to the...www.urbexplayground.com
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Also, @nfitz how do you know about this.........you're not Walter's age and you don't live in Montreal............ LOL
I lived there for much of the 1980s. Even back then, it was pretty obvious what it was for - and cars were still using the car tunnels back then as far as I remember; I'm not quite sure when that bridge got built, as it doesn't stick in my mind. I wasn't around in the 1950s when they closed the streetcar portion.Also, @nfitz how do you know about this.........you're not Walter's age and you don't live in Montreal............ LOL
I lived there for much of the 1980s.
Wasn't there a wider bridge there in the 1980s, though I thought it was barricaded for cars?
Depends what a child was. I was a teenager when I moved there in 1980 - and I had full run of the city from day one, living near Vendome (which meant for me the 105 went to Atwater!). I came and went a bit in the late 1980s, and last lived there regularly in 1991. But there's family still there - and the old house.Were you a child?
Depends what a child was. I was a teenager when I moved there in 1980 - and I had full run of the city from day one, living near Vendome (which meant for me the 105 went to Atwater!). I came and went a bit in the late 1980s, and last lived there regularly in 1991. But there's family still there - and the old house.
Used to take Wellington mostly to get to the Victoria Bridge and the 116 - which was often faster than the Champlain. I don't recall doing that though since the early 1990s, heading to St. Lambert. That was always a freaky bridge to drive on ... especially when a train came! Google Streetview shows little change.
*ahem* not everyone has kids in their young years...A teenager, in 1980; you're older than me! Who knew? I remember you having, the last time you discussed it, young kids (probably an eon ago, LOL); so I always pictured you as a bit younger than me.
I'm ~ a decade younger than you it would seem............ Colour me shocked.