Montreal blue metro line could be closed for weeks [Video]

Public transport users who regularly use Fabre, d’Iberville and Saint-Michel stations on the Montreal metro’s blue line will have to be patient, as the emergency closure of the three stations announced on Thursday evening could stretch out over “a few days, or even a few weeks.”

At a news scrum on Friday morning to explain why the three stations had to be closed indefinitely, the Director General of the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), Marie-Claude Léonard, warned that lengthy work would be required.

At Saint-Michel station, a “major deterioration” of a beam above the footbridge that allows passengers to cross over the metro’s two tracks has been identified.

For safety reasons, the station had to be closed. Since the only other place available to allow trains continuing to serve the rest of the blue line to change tracks was at Jean-Talon station, Fabre and d’Iberville stations also had to be closed.

“Our civil engineering teams are …