Promoter defends Montréal REM cost escalation

REM automated metro train travels over the Samuel De Champlain Bridge

CANADA: Despite ‘extraordinary circumstances and exceptional technical challenges’, the construction costs for Montréal’s REM automated light metro have been kept ‘within a very competitive budget compared with other similar major transportation projects around the world’, according to project promoter CDPQ Infra.

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