@freemo @shoshin it is necessary for Quebec City to have a structural public transit system. It will stop many people for taking cars, and make public transport an easier alternative than it already is. Pollution and climate change will flood the entire Old Quebec City anyway if we don’t do anything.
Overall it’s a much better project than the 3e lien (which comes at 200k per automobile user)
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Agreed, but if shoshin's point is true that it cuts through ancient forests, then why hasnt it been rerouted to go through younger forests?
If we are talking anctient forrests on the scale of the redwoods that are many hundreds if not thousands of years old then transplanting them generally isnt an option. Their root systems are massive and its about mor ethan just the trees.
That said I dont know what forests shoshin is specifically concerned with. Personally I didnt know there were ancient forests in Quebec like that.
@freemo @shoshin perfection doesn’t exist.
Sure, we could change the route it goes.
But it would make longer delays,
We would have to wait even more.
It would add even more to what this is already costing.
Équipe Marié Josée Savard (formerly Équipe Labeaume, but she’s his dauphine who could be next mayor (the first woman mayor )) is promising to plant even more tree in the next mandate.
If there are some special trees we’d want to save couldn’t we just transplant them elsewhere.
Unfortunately though, some of these trees may have to be cut down anyway because there were new invasive insects who are going to kill them.