Quebec: Centenarian tunnel choke point for Canadian passenger rail projects

By David Thomas, Contributing Editor, Railway Age Magazine; February 7, 2018

A 100-year-old tunnel through Mont-Royal has become a choke point for parallel projects to build new intercity and regional commuter railways radiating from Montreal’s Central Station.

With political momentum building for both VIA Rail’s High-Frequency Rail (HFR) project and the Quebec public pension fund’s regional light rail scheme, construction timelines may depend on whether the two railway designs can be adapted to share the three-mile-long, double-track tunnel.

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