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The city of Dorval is pressing the new Réseau express métropolitain (REM) to add another station at the VIA Rail Station, located near the Dorval Circle and Highway 20.

Dorval Mayor Edgar Rouleau said the city passed a resolution in council last week to formally request the REM and governing transportation authorities extend the REM from Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport one more stop to the nearby intermodal train station, used by VIA Rail and commuter trains.

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Rouleau said it’s a “no-brainer” to extend the line once the tunnelling machine to the airport is operating underground, less than a kilometre away from the VIA Rail station.

“The time to do it is now,” said Rouleau, who says industrial-scale tunnelling is a one-and-done operation.

““If they say, ‘We’ll do it in phase 2’, it will never been done because they’ll never bring back the tunnelling machine. It would be too expensive.”