Where is this path and what is its purpose?
UPDATE: Nobody got it dead on, but Chris was the closest below, correctly placing this path in LaSalle. A few of you also correctly guessed that there is a rail line on the right. Put that together and you get the right answer.
Path to LaSalle train station from Airlie St.
It’s a path that connects Airlie St. to the LaSalle train station on the Montreal-Delson/Candiac commuter train line near the rail bridge to Kahnawake.
LaSalle has the distinction of being the least-used commuter train station on the island by the number of train stops: six every weekday in each direction, or 60 each week. (Compare that with its busiest station, Central Station, which sees 349 departures and arrivals each week, or Lucien L’Allier/Vendôme/Montreal-Ouest, which has 259 trains a week going through that corridor.)
And it shows.
This underpass connects the parking lot with the only usable platform
This parking lot is a not-well-marked gravel lot next to an abandoned building
This used to be a train station but has since been boarded up. The platform, too small for a commuter train, is no longer used.
Though marked as a platform for the commuter train, the western side isn't used because it's too short. Its entrance is boarded up.
The only not-awful-looking entrance to the station is through a park, but it's not obviously a train station entrance.
Something to do with Villa Maria?
Ça ressemble à une piste cyclable dans l’est de Montréal, dans un axe nord-sud, dans une espèce de ruelle glauque, près de rails de chemin de fer.
behind lower canada college on royal avenue!!!
Dans Rosemont?
Train tracks on the right.
Security fence separating the neighborhood from Bordeaux Prison perhaps?
This is in Pierrefonds, where Alexander avenue crosses the Deux-Montagnes line, about where the old À-Ma-Baie station used to be.
It connects Parc Ex to TMR
This looks like, but probably isn’t, this weird path that always seems to be shut down in Lasalle, near the Moulin Fleming if I’m not mistaken.
So, what is it? Pray tell, Fagstein! :D
This is where we bring the folks who’ve written all the copy about how Montreal is quaint.
Whoa.. That place is ugly/spooky.. :P
i live in lasalle and i never even knew about this!
uh oh
lol
Yes! Win number two!
A vague somewhere-near-here description does not a win make, but if it makes you feel better…
It does make me feel better. Can I at least have half a win for being the only one who even came close?
LaSalle certainly has its ugly spots, that’s for sure. I live on Highlands Avenue right near this eyesore, and I wish the city would do something about this mess.
There was a murder in the train ‘tunnel’ several years ago. I was going to move. I’ve lived in this neighbourhood since 1959 and I’ve never seen it so horrible; I still want to move sometimes.
The building you mention is not abandoned. CP ‘workers’ use it to play cards in, read Journal de Montreal and I’ve seen cheap bottles of wine thrown alongside the grass near the tracks, too, suspiciously close to this building.