Illustration of the tram running in winter near Chemin des Quatre-Bourgeois and Boulevard Pie-XII. (Archive photo)
If the City of Quebec has not reviewed the concrete slab on which the tram was to run or the electricity supply by overhead wires, it is precisely to do not modify the completion schedule.
We had the courage to say things during the campaign, to make a very large majority of the proposed changes, but also to accept that, in order not to call the project into question, there were changes that we had to put aside. , he pleads.
Bruno Marchand also shot an arrow at the agency project that the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility is preparing , Geneviève Guilbault, to oversee all of Quebec's major infrastructure projects.
If every time we change government we change our minds and ask for something else, even if you have 500 top guns in the agency, it will amount to the same thing! he gets carried away.
According to Bruno Marchand, it is first and foremost political will that will move transport projects forward collective.
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Geneviève Guilbault, Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility
This new study from HEC Montréal has also given ammunition to the opposition parties who have been criticizing for several weeks the poor record of the Legault government in public transport.
According to the solidarity MP for Taschereau, a riding in downtown Quebec, the study demonstrates figures to support that the CAQ improvises, makes anything and fails to attach its public transport projects. Étienne Grandmont underlines that the CAQ has not delivered any major public transport project since its election in 2018.
At the Parti Québécois, Pascal Paradis argues that the Prime Minister would be ill-advised not to give credibility to the HEC Montréal study since he himself is a graduate of this institution, just like the Minister of Education. x27;Economy.
The third link is a perfect example of a poorly planned project where the need was not identified, criticizes the member for Jean-Talon by repeating the conclusions of the study.
I find it sad that these are examples from the national capital, Quebec, that are used to demonstrate what is wrong. What we want is for these major projects in Quebec to become models of what is going well.
A quote from Pascal Paradis, member of the Parti Québécois in Jean-Talon
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Pascal Paradis, PQ MP in Jean-Talon
Pascal Paradis invites the government to rise above partisan considerations and leave the management of major projects to experts.
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