The Quebec government is being urged to increase its investment in public transit after three Montreal subway stations were forced to close suddenly on Thursday night for emergency repairs on a degraded beam.
Montreal’s public transit authority says the Fabre, d’Iberville and Saint-Michel stations will be shut for days or weeks to work on the beam located above a pedestrian walkway.
Société de transport de Montréal CEO Marie-Claude Léonard says the problem is found only at the St-Michel station, but the other two stations needed to be closed as well because they don’t have the infrastructure to turn the trains around….