Reseau Electrique de Montreal (REM) Light Rail Transit (LRT) PPP

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The REM Project is a fully automated, electric light rail transit (LRT) system, made up of 67 km of dedicated rail lines, with 50% of the tracks occupying existing rail corridors and 30% following existing highways. The REM will include four branches connecting downtown Montréal, the South Shore, the West Island, the North Shore and the airport, resulting in two new high-frequency public transit service lines to key employment hubs. The South Shore section includes a new 15‑km branch that will start in Brossard, southeast of the A‑10/A‑30 interchange and include the A-10 corridor leading downtown, connecting to Central Station. The Deux-Montagnes Branch will leverage the Deux-Montagnes commuter train line, the existing rail corridor dedicated to passenger transportation. The line will be transformed into a 31‑km LRT branch line that will link Deux-Montagnes with downtown Montréal. The new Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue branch will run along the Deux-Montagnes corridor to the A-13. It will then branch off towards the existing Doney right-of-way line (in the Montréal Technoparc) along the A-40 line to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. This 16‑km branch will connect Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue to downtown Montréal via the A-40 line. The new airport branch, about 5-km long, will start at Central Station, run along the Deux-Montagnes and Doney lines and then branch off south to connect with the Montréal-Trudeau Airport. All the lines will connect into a single transit network.

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