Pink Line (Montreal Metro)
The Pink Line was a subway line proposal for the Montreal Metro in Quebec. First proposed by municipal councillor Sylvain Ouellet in September 2011, the Pink Line in a modified form was a "central campaign promise" of the mayoral campaign of Valérie Plante, leader of the political party Projet Montréal and mayor of Montreal from 2017 to 2025.
The project was initially projected to cost and scheduled to open in 2025. The project was subsequently added to Quebec's 10-year infrastructure plan, and feasibility studies for the line's western section began in June 2021. Since then, the project has been altered and a competing segment on the REM has also been proposed, bringing into question as to what form the Pink Line will take. As late as 2024, the project remained in the official transit plan, but there was never a timeline as to when it would be built.
The proposed route of the line would traverse many Montreal neighbourhoods. It would start in Montreal North, and travel southwest through the city, with connections to the blue line extension, Mont-Royal metro station, and Place-des-Arts station. Given this routing, the section from Montreal North to Pie-IX is generally seen as the successor to the cancelled White Line originally proposed in the 1980s. A second phase of the project would travel southwest from Downtown Montreal, through Westmount, the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, Montreal West, and end at Lachine. This would be the first Montreal Metro line with above-ground stations.