Is Montreal Transit Overheating?
Channel: Paige Saunders
Date: 2020-06-05

There are so many projects being proposed in Montreal but will any of them get built? We look at all the projects that have been announced and funded for their preliminary studies. Will they just become reports sitting in a government vault somewhere? Why do politicians start things they can't finish? Is the pink line a dream that can become a reality? Is there a better way to build things?

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