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Remember the Dorval Circle ramps to nowhere?

For an encore, Transport Quebec is paying for a $136-million train corridor to nowhere.

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When it was planning the $3.7-billion Turcot reconstruction project, Quebec included a rail corridor between the South-West borough and Montreal West.

The corridor, including a concrete tunnel under a highway ramp, was to accommodate commuter trains and an airport shuttle, with tracks running near the Falaise St-Jacques, Canadian National freight tracks and Highway 20.

Problem is, the province just chose a different route for the long-awaited airport shuttle and improvements to West Island train service.

Photo by Susan Ferguson / Montreal Gazette

The $5.5-billion Réseau électrique métropolitain, announced in April, will link the South Shore, the West Island and Deux-Montagnes to both the airport and downtown Montreal.

The new plan does away with the idea of linking the airport and downtown via trains running along Highway 20.