Possible extension of the metro line to be announced Friday

Good news for Montrealers living in the East end of the city.

According to Radio-Canada, the province will announce Friday morning at 10 a.m. their intention to extend the metro system’s blue line beyond the St.Michel terminus.

The province plans on adding as many as five stations to the east, covering a distance of six kilometers all the way to the borough of Anjou.

The AMT had requested this extending back in June, and current transport minister Sylvain Gaudreault mentioned that the province was in favour of the project. 

The last extension project of this kind took five years and eight hundred million dollars to realize.

It was the adding of three stations to the orange line towards Laval.

The possibility of extending the yellow line past the Longueil terminus is also expected to be on the table at tomorrow’s meeting.

STORY WRITTEN BY: Audrey Folliot

FLICKR PHOTO BY: Andreas Rammelt