Repentigny-Mascouche Line (AMT)

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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 Agency'), the umbrella organization that plans, integrates, and coordinates public transportation services across this region.

1 Overview
2 History
3 List of stations
4 See Also
5 References
6 External Links

[edit] Overview

Repentigny/Mascouche Line
CN Operation	?? - ??
AMT Scheduled Start	2008
Length	51 kilometres
Number of Stations	14
Ridership (2008, Estimate)	5000
Daily Departures	4 or 5 Round Trips
Operated by	CN's Montrain Division

This 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 a cost of $300 million (CAD), it will have 14 stops (11 new, three existing) and offer five departures per weekday rush-hour. The line is scheduled to be operational by 2008.

[edit] 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.

[edit] List of stations

The following is the list of proposed stations:

Station	Location	Connections
Central Station	Montreal	VIA Rail, Amtrak, Downtown Terminus (Terminus RTL). Bonaventure metro station, Société de transport de Montréal (STM) 150, 410, 430, 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 Mount-Royal and Montreal	STM 92, 160 (east bound Bates Road / Wilderton Avenue and west bound Barclay Street / Wilderton Avenue within 200 m walking distance Map).
Mount-Royal	Mount-Royal	STM 16,119,165,535.
L'Acadie	Montreal	STM 121, 179
Sauvé	Montreal	Sauvé metro station, VIA Rail (See Ahuntsic railway station), STM 31,121,140,180
Pie-IX	Montréal-Nord/Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension	STM 139, 143
Lacordaire	Montréal-Nord/Saint-Léonard	STM 32,199 (MB)
Louis-H-Lafontaine	Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles	STM
Sainte-Jean-Baptiste		STM 49.
Pointe-aux-Trembles		VIA Rail, (See Pointe-aux-Trembles railway station), STM 184, 186, 410, 430.
Charlemagne	Charlemagne
Le Gardeur/Repentigny	Repentigny	VIA Rail????
Terrebonne	Terrebonne
Mascouche	Mascouche