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Mayoral candidate Valérie Plante presented Projet Montréal’s vision on Tuesday for a $5.9-billion “Pink Line”; a new métro line extending diagonally across the island — from Lachine to Montreal North — that the party claims could be fully operational by 2028.

The line would pass through some of the city’s most densely-populated neighbourhoods that are currently underserved by public transit and in many cases also economically underdeveloped, Plante said. The idea would be not only to reduce car traffic, but to cut travel times for commuters, especially to the downtown core, and open up these neighbourhoods to economic development.

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The line would begin in the northeastern tip of Montreal North and its 21-kilometre tunnel would move diagonally down through St-Léonard, Villeray—St-Michel—Parc-Extension, to Rosemont—La-Petite-Patrie, Plateau-Mont-Royal to downtown. From there, the line would move above ground for eight more kilometres through downtown to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and on to Lachine.