2023-10-07 04:00:00
A building in Old Quebec as well as a temperate bus shelter in Sainte Foy built barely 11 years ago will be demolished to allow the construction of the future tramway
The building at 884, rue Saint-Joachim, located at the intersection of avenue Honoré-Mercier, currently houses an information center of the Réseau de transport de la Capitale (RTC). This center will be permanently closed next Friday.
The building, acquired by the City in spring 2022 for $1.9 million, will be demolished. In its place, the D’Youville underground tram station will be built in a few years.
The date of the demolition is not yet known, since it must be carried out by the private consortium which will be responsible for the “infrastructure” component of the tramway. The process to award this contract is underway.
And a temperate bus shelter
The other demolition concerns the Jules-Dallaire temperate bus shelter, located on the Route de l’Église, the construction of which was carried out by the Cominar company in 2012. At the time, the construction budget had not been revealed, but it is valued at several hundred thousand dollars.
This bus shelter will fall under the demolition peak next Tuesday and Wednesday. Its demolition “is part of the construction of the Sainte-Foy trade hub. This station is located on land belonging to iA Financial Group, which will carry out work there to create a new underground parking lot” explained to Journal Miriam Bard-Dumont, spokesperson for the tram project office.
According to her, “as the installations of the Sainte-Foy exchange hub will be located nearby, it was decided not to rebuild the temperate station”.
Other demolitions
In 2022, two more demolitions took place in connection with the tramway. First, a bungalow located at 912, boulevard Pie-XII, in Sainte-Foy, disappeared from the landscape to allow the construction of a parking lot (replacing another removed) and to clear a passage for maintenance of a noise barrier.
Then, the Shell gas station, formerly located at the intersection of Cartier Avenue and René-Lévesque Boulevard, in the Montcalm sector, was razed to make way for a future tram station.
The Alstom stock market debacle
On another note, the mayor of Quebec, Bruno Marchand, did not seem to be too concerned regarding the financial situation of Alstom, which obtained the contract to build the tramway trains. On Thursday, the value of the French multinational’s stock fell spectacularly (minus 37%) following the announcement of cash flow problems.
” It is sad. For the company, this is a very crucial question. Now, this is not the first company to experience a significant fluctuation. We’ll see what happens next […] It’s a solid company, I have confidence,” said the mayor on Thursday.
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