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The Red Line (french: Ligne rouge), also known as Line 3 (french: Ligne 3), was a proposed line of the

Montreal Metro The Montreal Metro (french: Métro de Montréal) is a rubber-tired underground rapid transit system serving Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The metro, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), was inaugurated on October 14, ...

that never made it past its planning stage. The line was supposed to have 15 stations and end at Cartierville (western) of

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, using CN tracks and Mount Royal Tunnel under

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. The line was cancelled because: * Trains would have to use steel wheels instead of rubber tires like the rest of the Metro cars because part (or most) of the line was to go outside. *

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made the Yellow Line more important. The line was still planned for construction as a "regional metro" line in the early 1980s, reduced to a total of 9 stations. The tracks were used by the

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Deux-Montagnes Line between 1995 and 2020, and will form the central section of the planned

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1982 list of planned stations

The following stations were planned for the line:"Le Métro fait surface: La ligne 6". Quebec Science, vol. 21, no. 3, Nov. 1982. Ministere des Transports du Quebec and le Conseil des Transports de la region de Montreal. * Gare Centrale *

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Mont-Royal Mount Royal (french: Mont-Royal, officially Town of Mount Royal, french: Ville de Mont-Royal, abbreviated TMR, french: VMR) is an affluent on-island suburban town located on the northwest side of the eponymous Mount Royal, northwest of Downtown ...

* Côte-Vertu * Bois-Franc * A-Ma-Baie * Roxboro * Laval *

Deux-Montagnes Deux-Montagnes is a suburban municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the north shore of the Rivière des Mille Îles where it flows out of Lake of Two Mountains (''Lac des Deux Montagnes''). It is part of the Deux-Montagnes Regional Coun ...

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1982 list of planned stations

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