The shiny new Anse-à-l’Orme REM branch is a welcome addition to Montreal’s transit landscape, despite some hiccups with reliability in the winter.
And it stands in sharp contrast to the pitiful state of the existing transportation infrastructure, which has been badly neglected and will continue to degrade unless Quebec finds the funds and the political will to fix it, writes The Gazette's Allison Hanes.
Call it a consequence of ribbon-cutting syndrome — the propensity for politicians to put money in new projects and defer maintenance of existing stock.
