Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante swept into office in 2017 on a pledge to build a new Pink Line of the métro. Improbable though it was, her pitch harnessed the hopeful energy of a city where the ...

In exchange, Quebec would give Montreal $800 million for métro improvements and promised the tramway to Lachine would be built. The tramway, which Plante called Phase 1 of her Pink Line project ...