Future Projects
To ease over-crowding and attract new users on the Deux-Montagnes Line, the AMT plans to carry out several projects:
- Since 2010, the AMT has been building a railway overpass for commuter trains to pass below freight trains that currently use CN's Saint-Laurent subdivision just south of the Montpellier station. The overpass is a prerequisite to increase commuter train frequencies on the Deux-Montagnes line as well the commissioning of the Repentigny-Mascouche Line. The $60-million project should be completed by end of 2013, when the new line is also expected to be commissioned.
- Extend the double track from its current end point at the Bois-Franc station to the Roxboro-Pierrefonds station in Pierrefonds-Roxboro. Work includes doubling the track over 7.5 km parallel to the existing track, rebuilding a small bridge, building a new overpass over the bike path through Bois-de-Liesse park, reconfiguring three level crossings, and adding a second platform at Sunnybrooke station. Construction should begin in 2013 and be complete by 2015. Preliminary costs are estimated at $51 million.
- Open two new train stations: one at Autoroute 13 near boulevard Gouin (between Bois-Franc and Sunnybrooke stations), and another in Saint-Eustache, just east of the line's current Deux-Montagnes terminus. The latter would require extending the second track from Deux-Montagnes station by 0.7 km. Both projects are subject to an increase in line's capacity, pushing their commissioning dates to 2015 or later.
- Purchase the entire Deux-Montagnes subdivision from the CN Railway. This will give AMT complete flexibility for scheduling trains and allow them to save rent money in the long term.
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