If you live or work west of the Island of Montreal and feel like the transportation situation off-island is in dire straights, you are not alone. Welcome to REM Vaudreuil Soulange (dot CA), a webpage launched by the ‘Citizens for the REM to Vaudreuil-Soulanges’ not-for-profit advocacy group, which is dedicated to unifying the voices of citizens whom have been calling for concrete structural changes to the Vaudreuil-Soulanges transportation grid for decades. Our goal is to mobilize those voices so as push our elected officials to finally affect various changes they have been promising us for decades, including a recent promise by the CAQ Governement (which has since been withdrawn), that of extending the western leg of the western leg of the coming REM network to end in Vaudreuil as opposed to Kirkland / Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue border.

Transportation issues in an ever growing society is nothing new. As populations grow, it is incumbent on governments, at all levels, to address and adjust transportation grid master plans so as to meet the demands of those growing populations, both in updating (and sometimes – redesigning) transportation infrastructure, and by expanding public transit options in an effective way. This is especially true at this pivitol moment in our history as we face an ever growing climate crisis. It is imperitive for us to make life style changes so as to decrease dependancy on individual & private modes of transportation, and rather turn towards a collective public transit system which adequately meets the needs of its ridership.

For those living west of Kirkland, however, public transportation options are vastly inadequate, and what available options there are (basically buses) will be grossly impacted and inadequate once reconstruction of the replacement Ile-aux-Tourte bridge, which connects the Vaudreuil-Soulanges region (and those travelling through it from Ontario and western Canada) to the island of Montréal, begins. This is where we come in.

This is especially true in the case of the Vaudreuil-Soulange region.roadway traffic & increase the life span of the said infrastructure.