[VIDEO, PHOTOS] Here are the future network of public transportation in Quebec

Stephanie Martin

Friday, 16 march 2018 13:19

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The new network of transport Québec’s $ 3 billion will be put into service in 2026. It will include 23 km of tramway, 17 miles of trambus, 16 km of new hov lanes, four interchanges, and of the mechanical links between the low city and the high city, to serve 65% of the population to less than a 10-minute walk.

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The construction will begin in 2022 after the design, plans and specifications and bid documents and the system will be in service partially in 2025, and then completely in 2026.

Photo courtesy, City of Québec

The tram will not pass through to Lévis. At best, the service trambus will be able to get there. Four scenarios have been proposed to the Town of Gilles Lehouillier to fetch the users lévisiens, the same as in the deceased project of SRB. It will be up to Levis to negotiate with the government for the financing of the interconnection, explained the City of Quebec. The mayor of Lévis has invited the media to 13h to react.

In a presentation very dense, the City and the réseau de transport de la capitale (RTC) showed the new transit card completely revised.

Photo courtesy, City of Québec

“The good way in the right place.” This is the directive that is given the City to develop its new transport network multimode. Thus, in the axis of the busiest, we opted for the tram. The trambus, essentially a SRB completely electric, will serve Beauport, Saint-Sauveur and the Centre Videotron. The new lanes will be added to serve the north, Val-Bélair and Lebourgneuf, and is, in the area of Clemenceau. The metrobus service will continue to exist to complete the table. A total of 5000 new parking incentives will be born at the end of the network, for a total of 6000 parking spaces.

Photo courtesy, City of Québec

Same rates

For the same rates that currently, with adjustments for inflation, the users of the RTC will be able to take the tram, between the sector and IKEA Charlesbourg, 38 minutes, passing through the boulevard with two tunnels, in Sainte-Foy and in Montcalm, towards Saint-Roch.

The trambus will be a line of D’estimauville, Sainte-Foy, passing by the Red Cross and a line to the Centre Videotron.

Photo courtesy, City of Québec

We are also planning to add two mechanical links between the upper and lower city style is a funicular at the bottom of Joffre and the Cégep Garneau.

The total cost of the network will be $ 3 billion, entirely the responsibility of senior governments. This is in addition to investments of $ 300 million for Quebec City for urban facilities, mainly extensions of roads, sidewalks, planting.

Photo courtesy, City of Québec

$ 155 Million for the operation

In operating costs, the RTC provides for $ 155 million per year. Keeping the current network, and adding more buses, as suggested for several weeks the official opposition, this cost would increase to $ 160 million, has evaluated the PSTN. The gains of the new network is predominantly with the additional capability brought by the tramway and the trambus.

On the 56 km of transit, 1.7 km of lanes of traffic, cars will be removed, mainly in the area of the boulevard Charest, at the entrance of the city.

Photo courtesy, City of Québec

3 % growth in modal share

With its new network, the RTC seeks an increase in ridership of 29 % in 2026, with projections of 35 % in the future. This means, however, a modest increase of 3 % in the proportion of people who will be shifted from the auto to transit, since the number of vehicles on the roads will continue to increase. This represents one person out of five that will be travelling by public transport at peak hours, and 12 600 cars less on the road network.

Photo courtesy, City of Québec

Here are the cards of the future transit network

Map courtesy City of Quebec

Map courtesy City of Quebec

Map courtesy City of Quebec

Map courtesy City of Quebec

Map courtesy City of Quebec