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), the webpage dedicated to unifying the voices of citizens whom have been calling for concrete structural changes to the Vaudreuil-Soulange transportation grid for decades. Our goal is to unify those voices and mobilize them so as to push our elected officials to affect the various changes they have been promising us for decades, including a recent promise, which has since been broken, extending the western leg of the upcoming REM network to end in Vaudreuil as opposed to borders of eastern Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue & western Kirkland.

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) current transportation infrastructure, and in designing & expanding public transit options long term in an effective way. This is especially true at this pivotal moment in our history as we face an ever growing climate crisis. It is imperative for us to make life style changes so as to decrease our dependency on individual or private modes of transportation, and rather turn towards a collective public transit system which adequately meets the needs of current & future 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.