Red Line (Montreal Metro)

Montréal Métro 1961 project with line 3 in red and proposed extensions in yellow

The Red Line (French: Ligne rouge), also known as Line 3 (French: Ligne 3), was a proposed line of the Montreal Metro that never made it past its planning stage. The line was supposed to have 15 stations and end at Cartierville (western) of Bordeaux-Cartierville, using CN tracks and Mount Royal Tunnel under Mount Royal.^[1] 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.
Expo 67 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 commuter rail Deux-Montagnes Line between 1995 and 2020, and will form the central section of the planned Réseau express métropolitain.

1982 list of planned stations[]

The following stations were planned for the line:^[2]

Gare Centrale
Vincent D'Indy
Mont-Royal
Côte-Vertu
Bois-Franc
A-Ma-Baie
Roxboro
Laval
Deux-Montagnes

References[]

^ "Why is there no line 3?". Everything about the STM. Société de transport de Montréal. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
^ "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.