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There has been much ink of late about plowing a new pressure-relieving north-south artery in the West Island. You can vertically stack people in new condos but their cars obviously cause disproportionate traffic embolisms.

But it would be only a matter of a few years before even a new connection to Highway 40 would be a rush-hour horror like its parallel sisters. And Band-Aid synchronization of traffic lights is simply organizing the chaos.

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The rub, of course, is to get people to take public transport. However, for too much of the populous, being shovelled into stuffy buses is too pedestrian for their liking. And buses, regular users will attest, are no less subject to traffic slowdowns at any given moment. The best solution is a métro tunnel, but that dig costs a gazillion dollars an inch. (I am rounding numbers here.)

So, if you can’t go down, why not go up? Why not monorails?

Expo 67 was all about showing us the future, and the monorail was how fun-seeking visitors got around. Why not make Montreal Canada’s showpiece for this technology? It’s an above-road métro system just begging to be initiated in Quebec. Here’s why it’s a real fix: